Friday, October 25, 2013

Cathy Lynn Henderson: Texas; The former babysitter's second trial has once again been delayed. Once on death row, she spent almost 20 years in prison after being convicted of murdering a baby in 1994 before an appeal court overturned her conviction and sentence in December on the recommendation of a judge who said a new trial was necessary because of new scientific discoveries into the nature of head injuries. The Statesman.


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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