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Eleven days after a Cambridge, Mass., jury found British au pair Louise Woodward guilty of second-degree murder in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen last February, Judge Hiller Zobel turned the verdict on its head. In a rare and controversial act of judicial veto, he reduced her conviction to involuntary manslaughter and deemed that the 279 days she had served in prison would suffice as a sentence. Woodward was free. The decision elated her supporters--among them the entire village of Elton, England, her hometown--and devastated Matthew's parents, Deborah and Sunil Eappen. On Friday, Deborah...
Slattery's change of heart was prompted by a combination of doubts about his original vote and by the controversial verdict in the Louise Woodward murder trial. Whatever Slattery's thought process, his willingness to change his mind in the face of great opposition is commendable. "I just don't want to be lying in my bed at 12:01 a.m., 15 years from now, knowing that someone is being put to death, that I helped create the mechanism for putting that person to death and not being sure that person being put to death deserved what...
...prosecution introduce the freeway chase!" Dominick Dunne pounds the arm of a green damask sofa in his Manhattan apartment. It is the morning of what happens to be his 72nd birthday, and Dunne is talking about the O.J. Simpson trial with as much anger as if the verdict had been announced that day, not 2 1/2 years earlier. He goes on: "How could Marcia have been flirting with Cochran? What kind of message does that send to the jury...
...verdict? Well, if you're just dying for a movie about an international man of mystery, go rent Austin Powers. Yeah, baby, yeah...
...there lies the mystery: Union Texas is known for maintaining good relations with local communities, while public reaction to the Kansi verdict has thus far been muted. With Secretary of State Madeleine Albright set to visit Pakistan at the weekend, the U.S. embassy will be eager to solve the mystery with all speed...