"The Prom Mom"
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The Importance of Reluctance
Melissa Drexler, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of a newborn at prom. She ended up being in prison for 37 months - three years and one month. The law is more about showing what you can do to people than how it should be applied; she's an interesting monkey wrench that fell into the criminal justice machinery. "It's just so interesting like how the machinery reacts to something that it registers as a person"
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