US: No appeal in Indian-American woman's overturned foeticide conviction

Indiana's attorney general has opted not to appeal a recent ruling that overturned a woman's foeticide conviction for a self-induced abortion that killed her premature infant.

Thursdays's deadline passed without Indiana's attorney general or Purvi Patel's attorneys asking the Indiana Supreme Court to take up the state Court of Appeals' July ruling.

Patel's attorney, Stanford University law professor Larry Marshall, says he's pleased Indiana "didn't drag things out" by appealing.

Marshall says Patel could be resentenced and released from prison in September. The northern Indiana woman appealed the 2015 convictions that netted her a 20-year sentence.

July's ruling overturned Patel's foeticide conviction and vacated her child neglect conviction. The court found she should be resentenced on a lower-level child neglect charge. The attorney general's office did not have immediate comment.