Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain my innocence. I would never hurt Matty, and I never did hurt Matty, and I don't know what happened to him. I'm not responsible for his death. I didn't kill Matthew Eappen. That's all." And then, as she did when she first heard the verdict, Woodward collapsed in sobs...
...part of O.J. Simpson's "dream 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...
Late Saturday, the defense found ammunition in its bid to have the judge set aside the verdict in statements made by Jodie Garber, one of the jurors, to the Mail on Sunday, a British newspaper. "Nobody thought Louise intended to kill the baby," Garber was quoted as saying, explaining that it was done in the heat of the moment. She said that the jury was simply following Zobel's instructions that guilt should be determined by the fact "that a reasonable person would have known the actions she took would have resulted in the baby's death." Said Garber: "This...
...private domestic tragedy. For one thing, there was the overseas audience in Britain, watching for the very first time a fellow citizen being tried in a legal system that had previously been reserved for such spectacular but very American melodramas as the O.J. Simpson saga. When the guilty verdict was announced, an audience watching in a pub in Woodward's home village of Elton, in northern England, was so taken aback that for a time all that could be heard was the amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away. The American justice system came...
...understand the advantages of avoiding an SAT verdict better than Mark Meadows and Lien Le. Meadows says he can't remember exactly how he fared on the test, but he knows it wasn't a score that would vault him from a middle-class life in Santa Rosa, Calif., to Harvard. His mother, a nurse, had home-schooled him for several years, and his math skills were weak. He graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA and went to tiny Pacific Union College. But he thought he needed a bigger name on his graduate-school applications; he applied...