Word: eappen
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...jury shocked a world audience and convicted Woodward of second-degree murder in connection with the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen. The sentence carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison, with a possibility of parole in 15 years...
...enormously relieved that Judge Zobel has seen fit to give me back my liberty," she said. "I did not harm, much less kill, Matthew Eappen...
CAMBRIDGE: Shock waves continue to reverberate through the American legal system one day after Judge Hiller Zobel's surprise decision to free a British au pair convicted by a jury of murder. Aghast, prosecution attorneys swore vengeance for baby Matthew Eappen. Others were uneasy at the way Zobel had imposed his will over the jury?s. "We are a system that believes in juries," said TIME National Correspondent and former civil rights lawyer Adam Cohen. "When a judge steps in, you have...
...question of reducing Louise Woodward's sentence to time served, however, the results were less clear-cut. Only 41 percent agreed ? the rest swayed, perhaps, by the prosecution's emotional argument that Louise was in jail for virtually the length of Matthew Eappen's life. There was visible disquiet, too, at the scenes of champagne-cork popping in Elton, England. And with Louise reportedly set to reap a possible $100,000 for selling her story to a British magazine when she eventually returns home, the court of public opinion is sure to remain in session...
...display was society's massive ambivalence toward mothers who work (little was said about father Dr. Sunil Eappen). In truth, Eappen was hardly striving to become chief of surgery and mother of the year at the same time. To the contrary, she saw patients only three days a week and came home for lunch most days. To find day care, she went to E.F. Au Pair, one of only eight agencies licensed by the U.S. government to bring au pairs to this country. Surely most mothers could picture themselves hiring Woodward, and feeling lucky to get her. In an interview...