The judge said Thursday that prosecutors failed to provide evidence that 26-year-old Chelsea Becker consumed drugs, knowing it could kill her child.
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Becker's attorneys have argued that California's homicide law does not apply to pregnant women.
Prosecutors said the case about stopping a woman who has repeatedly abused narcotics while pregnant, resulting in two other babies who tested positive for meth at birth.
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The coroner's report listed toxic levels of meth as the baby's cause of death.