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.
On Monday, in what some are considering a defining move to shift power from the hands of the military to civilian authority, newly elected Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi dismissed a number of top military officials and pushed to early retirement Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, who served as the head of ad hoc military council.
On Friday, according to a “Forbes Richest Author List 2012,” the author who has become famous for his legal thrillers is labeled as the richest writer of the year, with a reported $94 million for 14 of his books published between 2011 and 2012.
After skipping a routine court appearance on Wednesday, Mark O’mara told a Florida court on Thursday that George Zimmerman will seek to dismiss the second-degree murder charges against him in the shooting of 17–year-old Travyon Martin.
