GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — The attorney for a Grand Junction man accused of first-degree murder says some charges against him should be dropped because the victim was not a real person.
Twenty-four-year-old Logan Lage faces multiple charges in connection with a head-on crash November 6th. Authorities say he was fleeing from law enforcement when he slammed into a vehicle driven by 26-year-old Shea Lehnen.
Lehnen was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Doctors performed a Caesarean section, delivering a girl, but the child died of asphyxia a few hours later.
The coroner ruled the death a homicide.
Public defender Will McNulty says the baby, named Lileigh, was neither a “person” nor a “child” when the crash occurred.
Prosecutors disagree.
Lage’s preliminary hearing is set for March 21st.
Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
