Word: zobel
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CAMBRIDGE: As the deadline for defense and prosecution appeals approaches, another war of words has broken out in the au pair case. In exclusive interviews with TIME, aggrieved mother Deborah Eappen says that in letting her go with time served, Judge Hiller Zobel showed "a total lack of understanding of child abuse" ? while defense attorney Harvey Silverglate insists the Woodward case is part of a pattern of child abuse "witch hunts" in Massachusetts...
Upon request by the prosecution, Zobel remanded Woodward's passport into the custody of the court and demanded that she remain in the state until the prosecution has had an opportunity to appeal the decision...
...enormously relieved that Judge Zobel has seen fit to give me back my liberty," she said. "I did not harm, much less kill, Matthew Eappen...
Both sides plan to appeal Zobel's decision...
Harvard affiliates were tangentially related to many aspects of the case. The father of Matthew Eappen, the 8-month-old victim, is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. The judge who reversed the jury's murder verdict, Hiller B. Zobel '53, is a Harvard graduate, as was one of the main prosecutors in the case. Frank-furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz played an active role in the post-trial defense. And Woodward defense attorney Harvey A. Silverglate has been involved in litigation against the University on behalf of students...