Uniontown woman is looking for a deposit in the daughter's death

A woman in Uniontown, who was convicted of the death of her 23 -month -old daughter in 2016 for murder, is now looking for a deposit when she requested the Court of Justice for a new procedure.

The 35 -year -old Andrea Dusha appeared on Monday in front of Fayette County Judge Linda Codaro, where her lawyers, Robert Perkins and Ryan James, argued that the prosecutors had rely on “faulty” evidence of how her daughter died in 2016.

“Andrea Dusha is in prison because he murdered her daughter when, according to the Commonwealth, Ms. Dusha's daughter was not a murder,” said Perkins.

In 2016 Dusha and her friend Michael Wright Jr., 41, lived in Fayette County when they were charged with the death of her daughter Lydia. The public prosecutor was based on a report by the forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, in which the child weighed £ 10 and died of malnutrition. Years later, another pathologist examined the evidence and testified that the weight was wrong. Wecht recognized the mistake and demanded both Wright, who originally comes from Waynesburg, as well as from Dusha, from Clarksville, appeal.

Wright's calling was solved after the general prosecutor's office dismissed his conviction of the third degree. He guilty of less changes and was currently convicted.

The deputy district prosecutor Melinda Dellarose argued that Dusha's circumstances were different from her boyfriend. Wright was convicted in court, while Dusha owes guilty of murder and accepted her 9 ½ to 19-year prison sentence.

“Andrea Dusha decided to ask. She took responsibility for the death of her 23 month old child,” said Dellarose.

DuSha's lawyer argued that the prosecutors, who is already not a murder of the death of Lydia's death in Wright's case, should extend this statement in Dushas from both cases, since both cases used the same evidence.

“This is unprecedented. I have never seen anything like that. It's really an extraordinary case,” said Perkins. “I think it's an injustice that Mr. Wright runs freely while Ms. Dusha is in chains,” said Perkins.

Dusha's lawyers have – unsuccessfully – argued to remove the prosecutors from their case and to monitor the general prosecutor's office as they did.

In order to support Dusha's application for deposit, her lawyers said that she had published the best of her decade in prison when Valedictorian functions her GED class, promoted in her courses at college level and as a tutor at college level. While she was in the Fayette County prison, she was also an active participant in the district's Ignite Resentry program.

“While many people had given up after learning the horrors that Ms. Dusha had told, she insisted,” said Perkins.

He argued that Dusha could help her mother who needs “considerable help” if she recovered from a serious leg injury. Dusha's mother currently lives with her younger sister Felicia and her 13-year-old son of Dushas in Greensburg in West Moreland County. Felicia works as a deputy defender in Pittsburgh.

Codaro said she would soon make a decision on whether a deposit should be granted.