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SENTENCED. AMY GROSSBERG, 20, and BRIAN PETERSON, 20; to 2 1/2 and 2 years in prison, respectively; in Wilmington, Del. The two pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of their newborn son in a Newark, Del., motel in 1996.
Louise Woodward's long American nightmare is over. The Massachusetts Supreme Court all but put the 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...
CHARGED. RICHARD ASHBY, 31; JOSEPH SCHWEITZER, 30; WILLIAM RANEY II, 26; and CHANDLER SEAGRAVES, 28, the Marine captains whose jet severed a gondola cable in Italy, killing 20 people; with negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter; in Norfolk, Va.
At 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...
On Sept. 7, 1987, Jian Wan Chen's husband, Dong Lu Chen, smashed her skull in with a claw hammer after she allegedly admitted to having an affair. Chen's teenage son discovered her body in the family's Brooklyn apartment. The trial judge sentenced Dong to five years probation...