Parents Convicted on Dead Son's Birthday
On 18 Feb 2007, Dan Sullivan wrote:
When Dixon was wrapping up her closing arguments on Wednesday, she
placed a child's birthday cake in front of the jury. The cake had
eight candles. Dixon lit them. She sang Happy Birthday to Josef, who
was eight years old when he died. And while the jurors watched, the
Smiths looked away, clung to each other, and sobbed. Dixon said that
Josef's birthday cake would always be missing something -- the candle
for his ninth birthday.
An uncalled for theatrical stunt by the prosecutor.
Nonetheless tha parents got what they deserved.
Yup! The jury had spoken!
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