(Bismarck, ND) A judge in Burleigh County is ruling that a mother who pleaded guilty to causing her baby's death received bad advice about entering a plea. Judge Daniel Borgen says Casandra Black Elk was given bad advice by her lawyer which prompted her to plead guilty to child neglect last year. Two weeks later, the final autopsy showed Black Elk was not responsible for
The Great North Innocence Project got involved in the case after the autopsy report for 3-week-old Starlight Black Elk showed she died from sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS.
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) - Attorneys for the State of North Dakota have appealed a judge's order to throw out the criminal judgment and sentence of a wom.