Conviction reversed in microwaved baby case

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/conviction-reversed-in-microwaved-baby-case--996252.html

Ohio’s Second District Court of Appeals on Friday reversed China Arnold’s conviction in the 2005 microwave oven death of her 4-week-old daughter, Paris Talley.

Arnold, 30, is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. The ruling means she could get a new trial and could be brought back to the Montgomery County Jail within days, her attorney, Jon Paul Rion, said.

The appeals court based its decision partially on “numerous acts of prosecutorial misconduct,” according to the ruling.

County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr. said in a statement that his office plans to ask the court to reconsider its decision. (more...)

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Reward for a dandy distraction???????

It's upsetting when a jury is satisfactorily seated and upon deliberation come to a conclusion and the law is meted out only to be overturned. How could there possibly be a lesser crime than being so drunk that....well, whatever happened that caused this baby's return to a twinkle.

[thunder rising]

1. numerous acts of prosecutorial misconduct. Elect better prosecutors

[exboyfil]

2. A witness from the first trial recanted

That testimony was used in the second trial after the witness could not be "found".

I don't know, but I think I would want a new trial under those conditions.