JUDGE Oct 11, 2019
Sentencing was set to begin Friday for the Massachusetts woman convicted in the death of a 6-month-old baby in 2014. Pallavi Macharla had her initial second-degree murder conviction reduced to involuntary manslaughter in the March 2014 death of Ridhima Dhekane. Judge Kenneth Fishman said his decision to reduce the verdict was because he could not permit the murder conviction to. JUDGE Aug 26, 2019
A judge has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of a Massachusetts woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care. The Boston Globe reports that Judge Kenneth Fishman said in his decision to reduce the verdict to involuntary manslaughter that he could not permit the murder conviction to stand “in the presence of such highly contested and.