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...announcement on Monday by Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53, which reduced Woodward's conviction to manslaughter and set her free, draws to an end one of the biggest media onslaughts in the city's recent memory...
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...
...attorney. "I do not know any lawyer in the Greater Boston area who has any reaction other than shock." The verdict brings a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for the British teenager until 15 years have been served. Woodward's defense will petition Judge Hiller Zobel to set aside the verdict this week and, if that fails, will appeal the case...
CAMBRIDGE: Louise Woodward is free. That was the word from Judge Hiller Zobel, who reduced the British au pair's sentence to 279 days, or time served, after downgrading her crime Monday to involuntary manslaughter. Zobel said he wanted to bring a "compassionate conclusion" to the case...
When Judge Hiller Zobel decides whether to overturn a British au pair's murder conviction, he'll be doing it on the Internet. More...