Pallas Talley Case Study

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August 30, 2005 China Arnold got drunk after a fight with boyfriend, Terrell Talley, and placed her 28-day-old infant daughter, Pallas Talley, in a microwave and turned it on high for two minutes. Little Pallas Talley passed away the next day from internal burns (Link 15). The autopsy found that not only did Pallas die from the microwave, but her DNA was all over the inside of it. (Link 15). Arnold told the police that if she wasn’t drunk, then she guesses Pallas wouldn’t have died. Arnold’s bail was set at one million dollars (Link 15). Arnold’s first trail in 2006, the defense focused on the prosecution’s inability to defiantly prove that Arnold placed Pallas in the microwave, which sort of worked. One of Arnold’s three sons testified a

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