A jury in Boulder, Colo. is contemplating the fate of a woman who tried to cut another woman's baby out of her womb, according to CBS News. As previously reported by HNGN, Dynel Lane cut Michelle Wilkins' baby out of her body. Lane is now on trial, and prosecutors and defense attorneys are spinning the truth two very different ways.
Prosecutors say she carried out the deed with cold, calculating precision, but the defense claims she could not have done the act with anything less than a frantic mind, saying she did commit the crime, but it is not first-degree murder, according to the Washington Post.
"But the evidence also shows you that she never planned, prepared or processed anything that happened on March 18 [2015]," said attorney Kate Herold with the defense.
Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney Catrina Weigel painted a much different picture, telling the jury how Lane lured her victim to her house and how she even switched knives before committing the act. Weigel urged the jury to convict on first-degree murder, according to the Associated Press.
Dynel Lane case is in jury's hands.
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"After all of that, she's lying there [the victim] with her guts hanging out, bleeding profusely," said Weigel. "What does this defendant do? She leaves her there to die."
The trial concluded and the jury is still in deliberation.
