The former day care worker had been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2003 death of 14-month-old Isabella Zielinski. Her criminal case was dismissed Wednesday after the state was no longer able to make a case against her with a new expert opinion, according to a court order.
came to light, including a memo uncovered by journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill Justice Project that was written by the lead Romeoville detective, who worried that the pathologist who conducted the autopsy did not agree with the shaken baby syndrome theory.
The new evidence led a judge to release her in 2014 while her case was reviewed, and her conviction was overturned in August 2016 in the appellate court. A judge ordered a new trial. The Will County state’s attorney’s office had said it would appeal the ruling. “She literally said ‘Hallelujah!’” Blegen said. “It was great. She was overwhelmed with emotion and happiness.”He said she cried, and Will County Judge Carmen Goodman gave her tissues in the courtroom as Del Prete heard the judge say to her, “Congratulations, and good luck.”
“She’s ecstatic,” Joel Murphy, another one of her attorneys, said Thursday afternoon. “Of course ... we’re all very thrilled. This should have happened a long time ago.”
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