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: TalkLeft"Black Widow" Murder Conviction Overturned
By Jeralyn
Cynthia Sommer spent the last 2 years and 4 months in jail. She was convicted in 2007 of murdering her Marine husband by poisoning him with arsenic.
She left jail today after new tests showed there was no arsenic. The prosecution moved to dismiss all charges against her.
Her defense lawyers point out:
“No one should say that this system worked,” he said. “This dismissal wasn't because of the prosecution's efforts; it was done because the defense demanded it.”
Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).
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