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Friday, May 25, 2012

Death Row Woman Could Get New Trial Over 'Dropped Baby' Evidence

A Texas woman who was convicted of killing a 3-month-old baby but claimed she merely dropped him could be released from her cell on death row and receive a new trial.
Texas Judge Jon Wisser has submitted a formal recommendation to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to toss the conviction ofCathy Lee Henderson for the murder of 3-month-old boy in 1994.
Henderson, now 55, was found guilty of killing her infant neighbor,Brandon Baugh, while she babysat, and then burying the body in a wine cooler box 60 miles from the home and fleeing the state. Henderson maintained throughout her trial that she accidentally dropped the boy on her concrete floor, from four-and-a-half feet in the air, while swinging him around to try and calm him.
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