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Article: AU PAIR'S LAWYERS ADMIT STRATEGY WAS WRONG BUT PROSECUTORS SAY IT'S TOO LATE NOW TO PLEAD MANSLAUGHTER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 5, 1997
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With protesters outside holding up signs such as ``IQ Tests for Jurors,'' Louise Woodward's lawyers acknowledged yesterday that their all-or-nothing strategy ``can be seen as a mistake'' and asked a judge to reduce the English au pair's murder conviction to manslaughter.
Millions watched on television - among them, Woodward from her prison cell - as the defense focused on getting the verdict down to the very charge her lawyers fought to keep the jury from even considering.
Superior Court Judge Hiller Zobel said that he might rule as early as today. And he said he will take the extraordinary step of issuing the decision on the Internet through media ...