article_snippet: Murder charges against Lane now depend on whether her child was alive outside of the 26-year-old expectant mother's womb, the district attorney's office said last week.
article_snippet: Boulder County District Attorney Stanley L. Garnett said: 'The issue of whether or not murder charges are appropriate involving a case involving the death of a fetus or a late-term pregnancy is always a difficult issue. '
article_snippet: Under Colorado law, essentially, there's no way murder charges can be brought if it's not established that the fetus lived as a child outside the body of the mother for some period of time. '