Word: murderes
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...team," had been so confident of its case that it had turned down a last-minute offer by the prosecution to include manslaughter as an option to present to the jury. Instead, with Woodward's assent, the defense persuaded the judge that the verdict should be all or nothing--murder or acquittal. It was a gamble that went terribly wrong. "It was stunning," said Alex MacDonald, a local trial 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...
...Woodward's testifying in her own defense. Despite tough questioning by prosecuting attorney Gerard Leone Jr., she stuck to her story, denying that she hurt Matthew. With a smile often threatening to break out on her face, she showed no sign of anger or malice that might support a murder charge. "I don't think any of us really believed this was a murder case per se," said Laurence Hardoon, former head of the child-abuse prosecution unit in Middlesex County. "It would have been different if she had dropped him from a three-story building or stabbed a knife...
Back in America, though, as the case proceeded through court, it was Deborah Eappen who was popularly demonized, stereotyped as the "do-it-all, want-it-all" workingwoman and part-time mother, becoming an unwitting defendant in the murder of her own baby. The public saw her and her husband Sunil as rich doctors selfishly pursuing their careers to the detriment of their children. Worse, they were said to be cheap. Didn't they know that Woodward was an au pair and not a nanny? Au pairs are young women brought over to the U.S. under a cultural-exchange program...
...seeming like the right place to more and more pop songwriters. Paul Simon is putting the finishing touches on his first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on the life of a New York City teen convicted of a gang murder in 1959. Elton John wrote most of the songs for The Lion King, a stage version of the hit movie, opening on Broadway next week. Jimmy Buffett has tried his hand at a musical--Don't Stop the Carnival, which had a successful run last spring in Miami--and so has Randy Newman, whose musical version of Faust is shopping...
...such as Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality, and Buddhism in America will go the way of other fads. ROMAN STASTNY London...