The panel rejected Shantavia Hayden’s argument that the judge should have allowed the jury to consider involuntary manslaughter as an alternative to second-degree murder.
In September 2022, a Detroit mom was found guilty of second-degree murder in the starvation death of her 7-week-old son, even though the mother had food. On Nov. 23, Hayden was sentenced to 27.5 to 50 years in prison. On Oct. 11, 2020, 29-year-old Shantavia Carolyn-Lalita Hayden brought her son, A’Mir Griffin, to the Children’s […]