During a womans pregnancy, she continues to visit the suntan booth. during delivery, her baby dies. is this homicide? can the infants death be linked to suntanning and ultraviolet lights?

Very unlikely.

Though exposure to ultraviolet radiation CAN be damaging to the skin in excessive amounts, this type of radiation is NOT a penetrating radiation. It is too low an energy to penetrate more than the very top layer of skin.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question19.htm

However, a person CAN be sunburnt to such an extent as to cause related health issues which could endanger the unborn child.

A sunburn is like anything else that burns the skin in terms of damage and impact to one's health. The skin is the largest organ of the body, and it performs some very important functions.

One of those functions is to prevent infection by keeping harmful bacteria and virus' out of the body. When you burn the skin, you reduce the skin's ability to do this which makes you more prone to infections. A serious enough infection COULD cause you to become ill enough to enddanger an unborn child.

And there are other things to consider as well: you skin is your primary temperature regulating organ for the body. Heat transfer out of the body is orchestrated by blood transferring heat to the skin where water evaporation from sweating can cool the body. If you cannot sweat, you die.

Or cancer caused by overexposure to the sun, like melenoma. Though cancer is usually a LONG term illness, and melenoma cannot directly harm the unborn child, acute cases CAN do so by killing the mother, or if the melenoma ends up going systemic (spreading throughout the body).

Homicide is also a crime of intent. Not accident. To convict a person of homicide, it must be shown that intent to kill the child was present when a pregnant person does this.

Yeah.

I dont know why the f*ck a woman would wanna suntan while pregnant anyways.

...thats silly and stupid.

sun tan booths can be detremental to anyone's health...young or old, much less pregnant....
i say it could be linked to the baby's health as much as smoking or drinking or drugs....
even though smoking cannot be proven to be the reason for lung cancer..anymore than a suntan booth or ultraviolent rays could , maybe, be proven to cause an unborn infants death....
she took the risk.....
in a lot of states, now, under 18, or maybe 16, cannot use a suntan booth without a parents permission....they abuse the use and themselves...maybe a pregnant woman should not be allowed, for the baby's sake....

I think that if it could be proven that she did this intentionally with the desire to kill the child, then yes. She should be prosecuted. I have never gone to a tanning booth before but I would imagine that they would have warning labels up about the dangers to pregnant women. Did she pre-mediate the murder of the baby thru repeated tanning visits or was she really just too stupid to take the warning signs seriously?

Here's a good site:
http://www.tanning-advisor.com/pregnancy-and-tanning-beds.html

Depends on how clever your lawyer is!
If I were the lawyer, I would not take the case.

What's the science?!

Where are you going to find credible expert witnesses?

I'm not exactly sure how you'd get to probable cause.