P. v. Bradford CA3
A jury found defendant Jessica Nicole Bradford guilty of the first degree murder of her newborn baby. The trial court sentenced her to an indeterminate term of 25 years to life in prison. The evidence showed that defendant delivered her baby in secret, carried it to a remote location where she hid it, and failed to give it any nourishment. The baby died three days after it was born.
Defendant argues: (1) a juror was improperly dismissed, (2) the jury should not have been instructed on the felony-murder theory of first degree murder, (3) the kidnapping instruction was erroneous, (4) the trial court failed to give a limiting instruction regarding the evidence of defendant’s prior pregnancy, (5) there was insufficient evidence that defendant caused the baby’s death, (6) the trial court should have given a corpus delicti instruction, and (7) cumulative error.
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