STORY: "Hearing reset in child murder trial," by reporter Jazmine Ulloa, published by the Statesman on October 18, 2013.
GIST: "Defense
lawyers for Cathy Lynn Henderson, a former babysitter once on death row
for the 1994 death of an infant, are still preparing for her second
trial. A hearing in the case set for Friday has been reset to next
month, though it likely will be pushed back again due to the holidays,
court officials said..........Henderson
spent nearly two decades in prison for killing the baby before a
sharply divided Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her capital murder
conviction and sentence in December. The court upheld a recommendation
by District Judge Jon Wisser that she have a new trial based on new
scientific discoveries into the nature of head injuries. “Testimony
of the state’s chief experts was, at bottom, scientifically flawed,”
Wisser wrote in findings dated May 14 and delivered to the appeals court
last year. Henderson claimed that Baugh died after slipping from
her arms and falling about four feet to the concrete floor in her home
in the Pflugerville area. She said she panicked, burying the boy’s body
in a Bell County field before fleeing to Missouri, where she was found
and arrested 11 days later. Henderson, 56, did not appear in court
before District Court Judge Karen Sage."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/hearing-reset-in-child-murder-trial/nbRbt/
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pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology
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Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
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