Abortion-related search terms shouldn’t have been admitted in Howard baby murder trial, Maryland Supreme Court rules

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Abortion-related search terms shouldn’t have been admitted in Howard baby murder trial, Maryland Supreme Court rules

A Howard County woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her newborn baby will get a new trial, the Supreme Court of Maryland ruled Wednesday. Moira Akers, 43, of Columbia, was convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse in 2022 in the death of her newborn baby. When police investigators found the newborn inside of a zipped plastic bag hidden in Akers’ home, an autopsy ruled the boy was born alive and healthy, and die…