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Article: Manslaughter conviction overturned.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2007
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Byline: Melissa Harris
Sep. 28--The Court of Special Appeals has overturned the conviction of a Columbia woman in the choking death of a fellow Loyola College doctoral student in 2005, ruling that Howard County detectives waited until she made incriminating statements to advise her of her Miranda rights.
Unless Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler decides to appeal the ruling to the state's highest court, prosecutors will either reach a plea agreement and lower Melissa Burch Harton's sentence or retry her on the charge of involuntary manslaughter.
In April 2006, Howard County Circuit Court Judge Lenore Gelfman sentenced Harton, 27, to the ...