On Tuesday, Betty Smithey walked out of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, a free woman after serving 49-years in prison for a murder in 1963.Smithey, now 69, was charged and convicted of the murder of 15-month-old, Sandy Gerberick, whom she was baby-sitting. Smithey was 20 at the time. The murder came to be called as The New Year's Day Murder.
Mark O’Mara, lawyer of George Zimmerman said he would not use “stand your ground” defense in the Travyon Martin murder case where Zimmerman is being charged with second-degree murder of the 17-year-old unarmed boy. Instead O’Mara said that he would use the State’s self-defense law.
Seems like the Jerry Sandusky, assistant football coach convicted on over 40 counts of child molestation, and the consequential implication of top University officials in the cover-up scandal that followed, continues to rock the rock the university as the Middle States Commission on Higher Education threatens the university’s accredited status.