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Articles MOTHER FOUND NOT GUILTY IN BABY’S DEATH FROM
INJURIES
Article ID: 9802060016
Published on December 2, 1997 - The Blade (Toledo, OH)
In what he called “a truly tragic case,” Judge
Charles Wittenberg ruled yesterday in Lucas County Common
Pleas Court that Stacy Hall is not guilty in the death
of her 9-month-old daughter.
Judge Wittenberg said prosecutors had not proven that Ms. Hall abused her child
or recklessly violated her legal duty to care for her.
Tyler Hall died July 1, 1996, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center of severe
brain damage sustained in the family’s Putnam Street home three days
earlier.
On reason Judge Wittenberg reached a verdict of not guilty was, he said, “Experts
differed in their conclusions as to the mechanism” that caused the injury.
A number of local nurses and doctors testified during the eight-day trial that
the damage done to Tyler was too severe to have come from a fall from a bed
onto a carpeted floor, as Ms. Hall contended.
Expert witnesses for the defense, however, said the brain damage sustained
by the child was consistent with that type of fall if a child landed on the
head.
The judge said he took into account there was no evidence of any earlier abuse
or neglect by the defendant of either of her daughters.
Ms Hall, in a dark orange suit, remained stoic as she had through most of the
trial as the judge explained his reasoning. When he announced his verdict she
jumped to her feet, but her elation was interrupted when her father James,
slumped to the floor of the courtroom. He was treated at Flower Hospital.
Ms. Hall said she knew she was innocent, but was excited to hear the judge
announce his finding.
Another daughter, Taylor, 3 is with her paternal grandmother under the jurisdiction
of the Children Service Board.
Lorin Zaner, Ms Hall’s attorney, said
he will ask juvenile court that his client first receive
extended unsupervised visitation with the girl, and then
have custody revert to Ms. Hall » CRIMINAL
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