Dear Friends:
      
"The jury stalemated 6-6 in the murder case against Amy  Leanne Prien, said 
Ingrid Wyatt, spokeswoman for the Riverside County district  attorney's office. 
Prien was convicted of second-degree murder in 2003, but an  appeals court 
overturned the conviction in September, citing flawed jury  instructions from 
the trial judge. 
The prosecution was believed to be the first of its kind in  California. 
Prien said she woke up and found her son dead in her bed on  Jan. 19, 2002. 
The prosecution argued during the trial that Prien, who had  smoked meth for 10 
to 15 years, would breast-feed her child after smoking even  though she knew 
it could damage him. 
When Prien was arrested, blood tests showed the  methamphetamine levels in 
her blood were within a potentially lethal range, but  police never tested her 
breast milk. 
Her attorney, Joe Reichmann of Los Angeles, argued that the  charges were 
based on "make-believe science" because authorities never knew how  much of the 
drugs were in her milk. 
Defense co-counsel, Stephen Yagman, said Thursday in a  phone interview that 
the baby's death was caused by pneumonia and not  drugs." 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, RLC, CCE
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
Faculty, Lactation Division Maternal-Infant Program,  Union Institute
Film Reviews Editor,  JHL
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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