Attorney seeks reduced charges for Gwinnett mother accused in hot car death of 1-year-old

The attorney for a Gwinnett County mother charged in the hot car death of her 1-year-old son is asking for her charges to be reduced from second-degree murder to felony involuntary manslaughter.

Deja Coleman, 29, remains jailed without bond following the death of her son, Daniel Coleman.

Attorney Tom Ford says Coleman was a single mother of three who worked 12-hour shifts as a certified nursing assistant at Northside Gwinnett Hospital. He says she was clinically sleep-deprived after getting only a couple of hours of sleep the night before the incident and caring for her three children…

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