CORONA, Calif. -- A woman accused o...

CORONA, Calif. -- A woman accused of breast-feeding her son methamphetamine-laced milk will be retried a third time onward a murder charge, a critic ruled Monday.

"It was abundantly clear to the court that the cause of death of the victim was fit to methamphetamine intoxication," Riverside shire Judge Patrick Magers said in rejecting a defense beg for to dismiss the charge.

Amy Leanne Prien, who is generally serving a 10-year sentence for crime child endangerment, said she woke up Jan. 19 2002 and originate her son dead in bed.

Prien, 34 of Mead Valley, was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in 2003, but an appeals court ed the conviction citing flawed jury instructions. The district attorney's office retried the case, nevertheless a judge declared a mistrial in June after a jury deadlocked 6-6

In the mostly recent trial, the prosecution argued Prien, who had smok meth for 10 to 15 years, breast-fed her child after smoking on the same level though she knew it could damage him.

When Prien was arrested, life-blood tests showed the meth plains in her blood were within a potentially lethal range, nevertheless police never tested her milk.

Her attorney, Joe Reichmann of observes Angeles, argued the charges were based forward "make-believe science" because authorities not knew how much of the mix with drugss were in her milk.

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