Monday, November 2, 2009

Baby death retrial may be set for February - al.com

Baby death retrial may be set for February - al.com: "Prosecutors anticipate that an Orange Beach mother's capital murder retrial will begin in February, Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb said.

Marsha Gossett Colby, 45, convicted of capital murder in 2007 for the death of her newborn son, will face a retrial after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in September that there were problems with jury selection at her first trial.

Colby was sentenced to life in prison without parole after officers in 2005 found a newborn buried be hind her camper with a post marking the grave. Colby claimed the child was stillborn, not murdered."