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Harlow Collinge: Childminder Karen Foster jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing baby boy with ‘forceful shaking’ | UK News

Harlow Collinge: Childminder Karen Foster jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing baby boy with ‘forceful shaking’ | UK News

A childminder has been jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing a nine-month-old boy by shaking him to death in frustration. Karen Foster, who was due to go on trial for the murder of nine-month-old Harlow Collinge, pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter last Friday after discussions with the child’s family. The basis of the 62-year-old’s plea was that “forceful shaking” of Harlow caused his death after he had toppled over out of his high chair, started crying and she shook him in frustration, Preston Crown Court heard. Mr Justice Barry Cotter said in court that Harlow was a “happy, healthy, much-loved” boy, but said Foster chose to continue childminding despite ill health and pain in her hip. He noted she worked more than she should have under Ofsted rules and said this contributed to her “loss of temper”, before adding: “You should have been a safe pair of hands to which Gemma Collinge could ensure her precious child. “I have no doubt you snapped on the 1 March 2022, in part …

Experts say Smith’s response to Cannon’s recent order was “forceful” but “appropriate”

Experts say Smith’s response to Cannon’s recent order was “forceful” but “appropriate”

Attorneys for Donald Trump and federal prosecutors submitted hypothetical jury instructions in the former president’s classified documents case late Tuesday, with special counsel Jack Smith also delivering a scathing rebuke of the presiding judge’s order requesting them.  U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last month ordered both parties to draft and file hypothetical jury instructions drawing from competing interpretations of two laws related to the case, a request legal experts have said is unusual, The Washington Post reports.  In his team’s filing, Smith rebuffed the judge, arguing that the jury instructions were based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.” He asked the Trump-appointee to “promptly” decide whether the “unstated legal premise” undergirding her order represents the court’s view of a “correct formulation of the law,” warning that he may appeal if the court finds “wrongly” that it does. Though Smith’s response to Cannon’s recent order was “forceful,” it was “appropriate,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon. “Judge Cannon is wrong on the law. She’s consistently wrong on the law and . . . she has entertained …