ATLANTA AP – A Mercer University law professor says a woman found guilty of murdering a baby she delivered on a toilet was unfairly convicted because the verdict hinged on a faulty confession.
Sarah Gerwig-Moore, representing Kayla Ragan Wright of Crisp County, told the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday that the medical examiner could not determine if the girl was born alive in October 2004. The defense attorney said that in deciding on suffocation, the doctor relied on Wright’s admission, after a lengthy grilling by police, that the baby whimpered before she wrapped it in a blanket and plastic garbage bag and placed it in a junked car.
