Akers v. State

Summary

The Court held that internet searches about legally available abortion options months before birth were irrelevant to whether Akers later intended to kill or harm a live newborn, and that her bare failure to obtain prenatal care was likewise insufficiently probative. The Court concluded that both theories depended on speculative, ambiguous, and equivocal inferences and reversed the intermediate appellate judgment for a new trial. The Court declined to address the State's newly raised theory concerning disparate prenatal care.