HUNTER WARNER - 3 Months (2010) - Tulsa OK

-A woman is arrested and jailed in connection with the death last month of her three month old baby boy. The arrest stems from an August 20th call to 3502 East Woodrow in reference to a dead child. The victim, Hunter Warner was pronounced dead after his father discovered him not breathing. The case was classified a homicide and a warrant was issued for the baby's 23 year old mother, Janette Mickelboro.



Police say Mickelboro confessed that she put the baby in a "bouncy chair' and when she checked on him in the morning she found the baby "cold and stiff'. Police say the mother told them she had tied a receiving blanket around the baby's face to keep a pacifier in place. Upon finding the lifeless child, police say Mickelboro moved him to a bassinet. She then left for work without notifying authorities. Later the child's father discovered the victim and called police. Mickelboro was located and arrested Wednesday by the Tulsa Police Fugitive Warrants Unit.

Police have arrested a woman in connection with the death of her infant child.

Twenty-three-year-old Janette Mickelboro faces a first-degree murder charge. Police say on August 20th, the child's father found the boy, Hunter Warner, dead in his bassinet. Investigators later determined the death to be a homicide and questioned Mickelboro.

Detectives say Mickelboro confessed that she had tied a receiving blanket around the child's face to hold his pacifier in place, then put him in a 'bouncy chair'. Several hours later, she said she checked on the child before leaving for work and that she discovered him to be "cold and stiff" She untied the boy, took him out of the chair and laid him in the bassinet before leaving for work and leaving Hunter to be discovered by his father.

Mickelboro remains in the Tulsa County Jail on 250-thousand dollars bail.

I say we (if she is adjudicated guilty) put Janette in a special chair of her very own.
We'll use straps to keep her in place and then we can turn on the juice and after, we'll put her in a casket and then we'll leave for work.

Woman now to face trial in baby's pacifier death

By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
Published: 1/11/2011 10:04 PM
Last Modified: 1/11/2011 10:04 PM
A reversal of a lower judge’s ruling means that a Tulsa woman now faces trial on a charge of murdering her baby.
A Tulsa County district judge resolved an appeal in favor of the prosecution and found that sufficient evidence was presented at Janette Mickelboro’s preliminary hearing to hold her for trial.
District Judge Bill Musseman sent the case back to Special Judge Allen Klein with instructions to bind Mickelboro over on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Hunter Warner. Hunter, born April 29, was not yet 4 months old when he died Aug. 20.
Prosecutors assert that he died because his mother tied a blanket around his head and face to keep a pacifier in his mouth at the family’s home in the 3500 block of East Woodrow Street.
At a December preliminary hearing, Klein decided that a prosecutor presented insufficient evidence to require Mickelboro, 24, to face a murder trial. Assistant District Attorney Sarah McAmis appealed that ruling.
Procedurally, such appeals of rulings by special judges are assigned to district or associate district judges. This matter was assigned to Musseman, who read the transcript of the hearing conducted by Klein.
If Klein’s ruling had remained intact, the murder charge against Mickelboro was destined for dismissal.
A police detective has testified that Mickelboro said she tied the blanket around the baby’s head to keep a pacifier in his mouth.
Dr. Joshua Lanter, a medical examiner, listed the “probable cause” of Hunter’s death as unknown and reported that the manner of death could not be determined.
His report says that “no specific findings were noted at autopsy that are specific or conclusive for suffocation.”
Lanter’s report, however, says that “suffocation deaths will frequently have no specific findings at autopsy.”
Marny Hill, a defense lawyer representing Mickelboro, said Tuesday that Lanter could not say with any degree of medical certainty that Hunter died because of airway obstruction. There was no showing of unreasonable force and no evidence of any injury that would have caused the death, Hill said.
Musseman noted that Lanter, in testifying in Klein’s court, indicated that it was more probable than not that Hunter’s death was linked to airway obstruction.
At the preliminary hearing level, evidence is to be evaluated in a light most favorable to the prosecution. The applicable standard is whether there is probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and that the defendant committed that crime.
“There can be no question that the state has in fact shown probable cause to believe that Hunter died because his airway was restricted by the blanket,” McAmis wrote in a court brief.
Mickelboro, who cried during Tuesday’s legal arguments, is in the Tulsa Jail.
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Tulsa woman pleads guilty to murder of infant son

Last Modified: 12/10/2011  4:59 AM

A Tulsa woman was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison on a reduced charge related to the death of her infant son.

Janette Mickelboro, 25, waived her right to a trial and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Hunter Warner.

Prosecutors maintained that the baby died because his mother tied a blanket around his head and face to keep a pacifier in his mouth at their home in the 3500 block of East Woodrow Street.

Hunter, born April 29, 2010, was not yet 4 months old when he died Aug. 20, 2010.

In accordance with a plea agreement, Tulsa County District Judge James Caputo imposed a split 15-year sentence that requires Mickelboro to serve a five-year probation upon completing her 10-year prison term.

The District Attorney's Office agreed to reduce the charge from first-degree murder in the plea deal.

On the crime of second-degree murder, Mickelboro must serve 85 percent of the prison part of her sentence - 8 1/2 years - before she is eligible for parole or release.

She gets credit on her sentence for almost 15 months spent in jail since her Sept. 15, 2010, arrest.

In a document completed to support her guilty plea, Mickelboro indicated that she caused Hunter's death by engaging in imminently dangerous conduct and tying a blanket around his head to keep a pacifier in his mouth.

In a medical examiner's report, Dr. Joshua Lanter listed the "probable cause" of death as unknown and reported that the manner of death could not be determined.

He reported that "no specific findings were noted at autopsy that are specific or conclusive for suffocation."

Lanter's report, however, said that "suffocation deaths will frequently have no specific findings at autopsy."

At a preliminary hearing a year ago, Special Judge Allen Klein determined that a prosecutor presented insufficient evidence to require Mickelboro to face a murder trial.

Assistant District Attorney Sarah McAmis successfully appealed that ruling to District Judge Bill Musseman, who reversed Klein. Musseman said sufficient evidence was presented at the preliminary hearing to hold Mickelboro for trial.

Musseman noted that Lanter indicated that it was more probable than not that Hunter's death was linked to airway obstruction.

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