The Crown and defence will both ask that a woman, formerly of Trenton, convicted of infanticide largely on the basis of evidence from Dr. Charles Smith be acquitted.
Findings from the now discredited pathologist led in part to Sherry Sherret-Robinson being convicted in 1999 of killing her four-month-old son.
But fresh expert evidence outlined in documents filed by Sherret-Robinson’s defence with Ontario’s Appeal Court puts that evidence into question.
Documents indicate both the Crown and defence will be asking for her conviction to be set aside next month and an acquittal entered.
Sherret-Robinson spent a year in jail.
