Ohio Mom Gets Life For Killing Baby in Microwave

[RICHARD]

IT's obvious to me that the baby committed suicide.

Can you imagine the life that child would have had growing up with a kook like that for a mother?

[Catty1]

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New trial sought in baby death case

Sep 2, 2008

Lawyers for an Ohio woman convicted of microwaving her baby daughter have asked for a new trial because a former cellmate who claimed she confessed to the killing had changed her story.

Jon Paul Rion said Linda Williams, who testified during China Arnold's first trial earlier this year, contacted him and told him she was "ready to tell the truth".

"I have interviewed Linda Williams this day and the statements made during that interview are in total and complete contradiction to the testimony given at the previous trial," Mr Rion wrote in an affidavit.

Last Friday a retrial jury in Dayton found Arnold guilty of aggravated murder and will begin deciding whether she should receive the death penalty.

During Arnold's first trial, Williams said she had a sexual relationship with Arnold when the two shared a prison cell in March 2007 and that Arnold told her about killing the baby in the microwave because her boyfriend believed he was not the child's father.

The judge later declared a mistrial, Arnold was retried, and, although Williams did not give evidence a second time, a video of her previous testimony was played in court.

Arnold feared her boyfriend was going to leave her, Williams said at the first trial.

"She said she put the baby into the microwave and started it and left the house," Williams said.

Williams said she asked Arnold how she got the child into the oven. "She said she fit right in," Williams said.

The judge has not ruled on Mr Rion's motion.


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Convicted mom China Arnold seeks new trial

By Lou Grieco

Staff Writer

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

DAYTON — Montgomery County prosecutors are opposing a motion from convicted killer China Arnold asking for a new trial.

The memo from the prosecutors filed Monday, Sept. 22, states that the evidence cited by Arnold's defense team is not new and not credible, and that her team's allegations of prosecutorial misconduct are "completely unfounded and baseless."

Arnold, 28, was convicted last month of aggravated murder in the August 2005 death of her 28-day-old daughter, Paris Talley, in a microwave oven.

Judge Mary Wiseman of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court sentenced Arnold on Sept. 8 to life without parole.

Wiseman has not scheduled a date to hear Arnold's motion.

Her attorneys claim that Linda Williams, who testified during Arnold's first trial, now says she lied under oath and was assaulted by an investigator with the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office.

Williams claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Arnold while in the county jail, and said Arnold admitted killing her baby in a microwave oven.

Williams did not testify in the second trial, but a videotape of her prior testimony was played for jurors.

The prosecutor's memo states that the investigator Williams accused was not in the county on the date Williams said the assault occurred.