article_snippet: a woman with a 20-year history of mental illness defense attorney said the prosecutor assigned to the most recent case wouldn't go forward with a plea deal to keep a woman with a 20-year history of mental illness out of prison unless a woman with a 20-year history of mental illness had the surgery.
article_snippet: An audit found that the state failed to make sure the inmate's consent was lawfully obtained in every case.
article_snippet: her attorney, assistant public defender Mary-Kathryn Harcombe, was once a senior attorney with the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse and serves on the international advisory board of the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome.
article_snippet: He has been both praised and fiercely criticized for He aggressive courtroom tactics on behalf of children.
article_snippet: a senior attorney with the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse took over the case, and Randers was not sterilized.
article_snippet: The prosecutor agreed Randers was mentally ill and The prosecutor was institutionalized after being found not guilty by reason of insanity.
article_snippet: Harcombe said: 'Any time a woman is given a choice between prison and this surgery, that is inherently coercive, even in cases where there is no mental illness.'
article_snippet: The prosecutor refused and it didn't become part of the plea deal reached in the case.
article_snippet: Neither did, Nashville defense attorney Carrie Searcy said, because both women had already undergone the procedure.
article_snippet: a senior attorney with the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse said: 'It's always been more of 'If your client is willing to do this, then I might be inclined to talk about probation.'