Au Pair’s Case Sent to Top State Court
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Louise Woodward giggled at a hearing in Boston when a judge sent the prosecution’s appeal in her case to the full state Supreme Court and declined to order the British au pair back to prison for the death of an 8-month-old boy. A jury convicted Woodward on Oct. 30 of second-degree murder in the shaking death of Matthew Eappen. The verdict was reduced to manslaughter two weeks later by the presiding judge in the case, Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel, and Woodward was released.
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