The Supreme Court’s first ruling of this Term — a controversial decision in which a majority simply ran out of patience with a lower court – had threatened to send a grandmother back to prison in a highly contested “shaken baby’ case. Now, the woman will remain free. On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown commuted the sentence of Shirley Ree Smith to the time she had already served behind bars — almost ten years, according to her lawyers, who now will try to get the conviction overturned. Read more here.
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