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...lawyers representing British au pair Louise Woodward were squaring off against prosecutors in the Middlesex County Superior Court in recent weeks, East Cambridge shopkeepers Peter B. Goodman and Bob Couliard were taking sides in their own debate...
...jury shocked a world audience and convicted Woodward of second-degree murder in connection with the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen. The sentence carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison, with a possibility of parole in 15 years...
...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...
...question of reducing Louise Woodward's sentence to time served, however, the results were less clear-cut. Only 41 percent agreed ? the rest swayed, perhaps, by the prosecution's emotional argument that Louise was in jail for virtually the length of Matthew Eappen's life. There was visible disquiet, too, at the scenes of champagne-cork popping in Elton, England. And with Louise reportedly set to reap a possible $100,000 for selling her story to a British magazine when she eventually returns home, the court of public opinion is sure to remain in session...
Recriminations continue over the freeing of British au pair Louise Woodward. More...