Prosecution, defense rest in case of unborn baby cut from womb
BOULDER, Colo. --Closing statements are expected Monday in the trial of a Colorado woman charged with cutting an unborn baby from the womb of another woman.
The Longmont Times-Call reports prosecutors finished their presentation Friday morning after calling 16 witnesses since the trial started Wednesday.
The defense then rested without calling any witnesses. Defendant Dynel Lane told the judge she would not testify.
Lane is charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault and unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the March 2015 attack on Michelle Wilkins in Longmont. Prosecutors say Lane beat and stabbed Wilkins and used two kitchen knives to remove her unborn baby girl in Lane's Longmont home.
Wilkins recovered and testified Wednesday. Wilkins said she went to Lane's home in response to a Craigslist ad offering free maternity clothes. She was 7 1/2 months pregnant.
She said she and Lane chatted for more than an hour before Lane took her to the basement to look at baby clothes, where Lane attacked her.
On the stand, Wilkins said she told herself she had to survive for the sake of her unborn daughter and tried to fight back. The baby didn't survive.