[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
laura skelding
State District Judge Karen Sage made the ruling after a 2½-hour hearing Tuesday afternoon in which three top pediatric airway specialists testified that 21-month-old Bryan Guttierez most likely swallowed, on his own, the compacted mass of paper towels that led to his death — and that there was no way Jimenez could have forced the wad down the boy’s throat, as prosecutors argued at her 2005 trial.
“I do not believe that Ms. Jimenez should spend another night in jail if it can be prevented,” Sage said.
Read the full article by Chuck Lindell in the Austin America-Statesman.
