In her defense, Bronstein argued that the intent of the statute in cutting the limitations in half for married filing separately taxpayers was to accommodate situations where the husband and wife jointly paid mortgage interest but chose to file separate returns.
Ashley Summers was 14 years old when, after an argument with her mother in 2007, she packed a bag with most of her clothes and left her house, in the part of western Cleveland where Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus had disappeared separately several years earlier.