People v. Taylor
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, Acting P. J.
On August 9, 2001, defendant Markelle Neal Taylor punched his girlfriend, Garvon White, six times hard in the stomach when White was seven months pregnant with defendant’s child.
On the same day, the child, Marcel Taylor, was delivered by Caesarean section surgery and was bom alive. However, the baby died about a month later from necrotizing intercolitis; the baby’s small bowel was almost entirely dead.
A jury convicted defendant of the second degree murder of Marcel Taylor, a human being (count 1; Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a); undesignated section references are to the…
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