Alexander Rizzo
Current Event
December 7th, 2017
Mr. Ippolito
“After 2 Death Sentences Tossed, Prosecutors Go for Life Term in Murder Trial of 'Baby Lollipops' Mom.” Forensic Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/after-2-death-sentences-tossed-prosecutors-go-life-term-murder-trial-baby-lollipops-mom.
This article is about a women, Ana Maria Cardona, 56, who is being convicted for allegedly killing her son. Prosecutors have tried to apply the death penalty twice but have failed twice due to lack of evidence. Cardona has been locked up in prison since 1990, when the murder occurred. The reason why is because, although it has not been proven that she murdered the children, she was convicted for child endangerment, assault, and other crimes but not murder. So far, the most important evidence in the case has been eye witnesses who ID’d her as the perpetrator due to a shirt that she owned that read ‘Baby Lollipops’. The case has become famous due to the prosecutor's errors that have lead to the women to be continuously held, ‘not guilty’. The case has been embarrassing for the prosecutors in florida.
This article is still relevant, even to this day, because of the amount of turmoil that has been created by the prosecutors in this case. This case is also relevant because of how gruesome the murders of the children were, and finally it is important because most of the evidence lies solely on the identification of the victim's shirt from a witness. This lead to questions like, should this witness have so much power in this case?
I think this article was good, but what could be improved is more detail regarding the evidence in the crime. I found it confusing trying to figure out what evidence lead the Cardona to be put into jail and what charges she was convicted with. I think, however, that the article did a good job describing how the prosecutors fumbled in the case.
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This week I read Rizzo's current event and he is in the other class. I would like to start by first saying that this was a delightful summary of a great article regarding a woman who was being convicted for killing her own son! The charges against trying to go against Anna Cardona was the death penalty, but it couldn't stand because of the lack of evidence. Nonetheless, she has been locked up since the 90's when the murder first happened. the Reasoning although it has not been proven that she murdered the children, she was convicted for child endangerment, assault, and other crimes but not murder.The case has become famous due to the prosecutor's errors that have lead to the women to be continuously held, ‘not guilty’. This case is so relevant to todays society and shows a great example of one of these turmoil cases in the 90's.
I learned a lot in this review including the conviction reasoning for a great case. She was found not guilty which I think is amazing and so interesting. the evidence was lacking in this case tho which is terrible because there should be enough to show if she did it or not. And since she didn't she should have never gone to jail. A crazy trial that should have been handled differently in my personal opinion but I learned a lot about how curtail evidence really is.
“After 2 Death Sentences Tossed, Prosecutors Go for Life Term in Murder Trial of 'Baby Lollipops' Mom.” Forensic Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/after-2-death-sentences-tossed-prosecutors-go-life-term-murder-trial-baby-lollipops-mom.
In Alex's review of the article,"After 2 Death Sentences Tossed, Prosecutors Go for Life Term in Murder Trial of 'Baby Lollipops' Mom." he does a good job summarizing the article. he did a good job including important information like specific details like dates and ages of important figures in this story. As well as, pointing out the main errors by the prosecutor's.
Even though I liked reading the review Alex could' ve included a quote about an expert or an explanation from a prosecutor. Or even thoughts from the perpetrator.
Overall I found Alex's review very good. I found it interesting that in this case prosecutors are making mistakes causing this person to not be in jail as much as she should be, instead of prosecutors usually wrongfully sentencing people to jail, which is usually what happens in popular cases that cause an uproar, in communities.
Catherine Faville
December 15, 2017
Current event 11
After 2 Death Sentences Tossed, Prosecutors Go for Life Term in Murder Trial of 'Baby Lollipops' Mom.” Forensic Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/after-2-death-sentences-tossed-prosecutors-go-life-term-murder-trial-baby-lollipops-mom.
After reading my classmate Alex’s review of the article “ After 2 Death Sentences tossed, prosecutors go for life term in the Murder Trial of Baby Lollipops Mom.” He summarized the article really well, throughout his summarization he included vital information from the article. He added important information such as evidence from the cases and important names and dates. He also did a fantastic job f going through and ridiculing the errors throughout the case.
However his review could have been improved if he had added more of his personal view to it, along with more quotes. If he had added some of these key factors to his analysis, it would have made it stronger and would have allowed the reader to follow along with the storyline easier.
Overall his review was interesting to read, it was interesting looking at the how the prosecutors constantly made mistakes leading up to the inevitable short jail time which should have been longer. This taught me how important evidence is, and how easily it can mishandled in court cases.
Zixi Chen
Mr. Ippolito
Forensic Science AB Odd
20 December 2017
Current Event 12
“After 2 Death Sentences Tossed, Prosecutors Go for Life Term in Murder Trial of 'Baby Lollipops' Mom.” Forensic Magazine, 6 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/after-2-death-sentences-tossed-prosecutors-go-life-term-murder-trial-baby-lollipops-mom.
Alex Rizzo wrote a great review of the article “ After 2 Death Sentences tossed, prosecutors go for life term in the Murder Trial of Baby Lollipops Mom” from the Forensic Magazine. In this review, Alex provided a very descriptive summary of the case in which the investigators had a lot of difficulties finding evidence that can prove that the son was murdered by his mother. The informations with numbers such as the dates and the age of the murderer were also provided which are very helpful for the readers to get a clear idea of the case. Furthermore, Alex brought the readers to an important question-- “should this witness have so much power in this case?” This question showed that Alex really put down his thoughts into the review and tried to engage the minds of his readers with questions.
Even though this review was very well written, there are some areas of possible improvements for Alex. First of all, it would have been nice if he used more direct quotes from the original article. The quotes can be words stated by someone related to the case or just the author of the article explaining the situation. It would help Alex to make his review more believable. Also, Alex can work on putting some transitional sentences between paragraphs to make this review easier to read.
This was a very interesting article, and it started me to think about the crimes committed between family members in this case. Crimes in families are easier to be covered up by the perpetrators because our morality tells us that family members should love each other. However, people who are closer to the victim are more likely to hurt him or her. This is a very sad case, and if the mother was actually the murderer, I hope the investigators will eventually find enough evidence to prove that.
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