Mom Exonerated After 13 Years in Prison
Mother Exonerated Before Retrial in Girl’s Death; She Already Spent 13 Years in Prison
Lynn Dejac, right, along with her defense attorney, Andrew LoTempio, listen to Judge John Michalski’s bail hearing ruling in the State Supreme Court in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007. The judge ruled in favor of Lynn DeJac’s motion to have her second-degree murder conviction thrown out after newly tested DNA evidence revealed a man was at the crime scene. (Don Heupel/AP Photo)The Associated Press By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. Feb 13, 2008 (AP)
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Share A woman who spent 13 years in prison after being convicted of strangling her 13-year-old daughter has been exonerated by forensic evidence showing she died of a cocaine overdose, a prosecutor in the case said Wednesday.
But even as the district attorney announced that the death of Crystallynn Girard was not a homicide and could not be prosecuted, her now 44-year-old mother, Lynn DeJac, insisted that a former boyfriend was responsible.