A DeKalb County State Court jury took two hours and 40 minutes to reach a defense verdict Monday evening in favor of three doctors on trial for two weeks over allegations that they misdiagnosed a comatose 18-year-old woman who gave birth to a son before being taken off life support and dying.

Defense attorney Paul E. Weathington attributed the verdict to the jury’s recognition that Tara Hawkins arrived at DeKalb Medical Center with an “irreversible condition” and that nothing the doctors did could change that. “She came in with a global brain injury. We thought that would carry the day,” Weathington said-although, he added, “You are always surprised when a jury comes back in two-and-a-half hours after a two-week trial.”

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