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Elizabeth Herne Otter's Defense Epilepsy Case Summary
A women was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month old son in the microwave. Elizabeth Renee Otter mother of Joseph Lewis Martnez, born August 18, was discovered in a microwave early morning after relatives searched their home in Lanexa. With no memory of the killing, Otte’s only defense epilepsy which caused her to blackout and become disoriented mistaken the baby for a
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