Word: eappen
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...former au pair on a plane back to England Tuesday by backing Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to commute her sentence to manslaughter and let her go with time served. But it was a squeaker -- four judges said yes, three said no, ensuring that the death of baby Matthew Eappen will remain forever shrouded in controversy...
...issue here: Can the British au pair return to England with a sentence of time served? Or should Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to impose a manslaughter verdict be overturned, and Woodward sent back to jail for the murder of baby Matthew Eappen? To solve that question, the justices have to crack a whole host of conundrums: Did the prosecution prejudice the trial by withholding details about Matthew's skull fracture, for example? Don't hold your breath for the answer -- the court has 130 days to make up its mind...
Along comes this painful and murky Boston murder trial, then, in which the truth of whatever happened on Feb. 4 was known only to the 19-year-old au pair and to eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, who was in her charge, and who is dead. The public thinks it sees injustice in the second-degree murder verdict the jury handed down. But then it thinks it sees injustice in the reversal by Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory...
...decision was not unexpected: To uphold the emergency appeal ? and send Woodward back to jail for killing baby Matthew Eappen ? the prosecution would have had to display a reason why this cannot go through the normal appeals process. Most legal experts couldn?t see one, and the judge seemed to concur. Even in a high profile case such as this, the wheels of justice spin slowly...
...watched the trial of au pair Louise Woodward [NATION, Nov. 10] and came to the same conclusion the jury did: that Woodward killed baby Matthew Eappen. Maybe it was not done intentionally, but don't be fooled by Woodward's appearance or British accent into believing that she is innocent. JOANA K. TAM Burnaby...