Michaels, a Pittsburgh native, was a 22-year-old aspiring actress working at the Wee Care Day Nursery in Maplewood, N.J., to make ends meet. The dismissal closes a 10-year odyssey that began when Ms. Michaels, 32, has been free on 75,000 bail since March 1993, when a three-judge appellate division panel ruled that her trial was full of egregious prosecutorial abuses, including questioning of the children that planted suggestions, tainting their testimony. Margaret Kelly Michaels Today Thirty Years Later Free On 75 Redden, said his office decided to seek dismissal because too many obstacles had been placed in the way of a successful retrial. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.Įnding one of the most sensational child sex-abuse scandals in the nation, prosecutors today formally dropped their case against Margaret Kelly Michaels, the former day care teacher who spent five years in prison before her 1987 conviction was overturned on appeal last year.įalcone of State Superior Court here, an assistant Essex County prosecutor, John S.
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