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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by consuming rat poison and was charged with murder and attempted feticide days later when her newborn daughter died will plead guilty.
Bei Bei Shuai’s plea agreement was announced this afternoon at a news conference in Marion Superior Court. She was to face trial beginning Sept. 3.
Marion Superior Judge Shiela Carlisle said earlier Friday she was prepared to call as many as 200 potential jurors within about two weeks.
After Shuai was charged, she spent 435 days in the Marion County Jail before a divided Court of Appeals ruled she should not be denied bail, and she ultimately was freed on $50,000 bond. One appellate court judge dissented, saying the grant of bond wasn’t enough and that she would dismiss the charges altogether.
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