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9780812693911

The Shaken Baby Murder Trial: What the Evidence Shows About the Louise Woodward Case

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812693911

  • ISBN10:

    0812693914

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-01
  • Publisher: Pgw
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Summary

Is Louise Woodward a brutal baby killer and consummate entirely innocent liar? An young nanny, trapped in a labyrinth of prejudice and prosecutorial zeal? Or a typical confused teenager who lost her head in a stressful situation?

No criminal trial in recent years has so sharply and evenly divided the American public as that of British au pair Louise Woodward for the murder of little Matthew Eappen. The trial also uncovered deep disagreement about the fashionable diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome". Distinguished medical experts testified for the defense that Matthew's injuries were weeks old, and could not possibly have resulted from mistreatment by Woodward on the day in question, but after the trial over 100 pediatricians signed an open letter protesting the defense's arguments.

Controversy has also raged furiously over the prosecution's decision to go for a murder conviction, and later the judge's decision to reduce Woodward's mandatory 15-year sentence for murder to time already served for manslaughter, overruling the jury's verdict.

M.L. Rantala, who

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