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The Marquardt Case
Anya Miller
Ms. Le Prevost-Groves
CHV20
08 July 2013 The Wrongfully Convicted: Tammy Marquardt
Tammy Marquardt, an Ontarian woman, was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of her two-year-old, in 1993. Marquardt, who was 21 at the time, heard her son Kenneth Wynne, crying out for her. By the time she got to the crib, her son was tangled up in the sheets. When the emergency workers had arrived, he had stop breathing. Tammy was charged for smothering her son to death. Her charge was based on the evidence of Dr. Charles Smith, a pathologist, who testified to his opinion that the two year old had smothered or strangled to death. In 1995, she was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2009, Marquardt

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