Word: zobel
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Louise Woodward's long American nightmare is over. The Massachusetts Supreme Court all but put the former au pair on a plane back to England Tuesday by backing Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to commute her sentence to manslaughter and let her go with time served. But it was a squeaker -- four judges said yes, three said no, ensuring that the death of baby Matthew Eappen will remain forever shrouded in controversy...
...issue here: Can the British au pair return to England with a sentence of time served? Or should Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to impose a manslaughter verdict be overturned, and Woodward sent back to jail for the murder of baby Matthew Eappen? To solve that question, the justices have to crack a whole host of conundrums: Did the prosecution prejudice the trial by withholding details about Matthew's skull fracture, for example? Don't hold your breath for the answer -- the court has 130 days to make up its mind...
...year-old au pair and to eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, who was in her charge, and who is dead. The public thinks it sees injustice in the second-degree murder verdict the jury handed down. But then it thinks it sees injustice in the reversal by Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory of O.J. and the question, never settled, of whether this year's civil-court decision to take away his money compensated society or heaven for what most people...
BOSTON: Louise Woodward versus the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Round 2: State prosecutors on Wednesday began the roller-coaster appeals process with an emergency request for the Supreme Judicial Court to overturn Judge Hiller Zobel's ruling which freed the British au pair. But Boston judge Ruth Abrams simply referred to a full appeals court...
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...