New Jersey's Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son 25 years earlier. Michelle Lodzinski has been serving a 30-year sentence without parole for the 1991 killing.
FILE - Michelle Lodzinski enters court, Friday, March 18, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. New Jersey's Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of Lozinski in the killing of her 5-year-old son 25 years earlier. The high court voted Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, in favor of Lodzinski, who has been serving a 30-year sentence without parole for the killing of Timothy Wiltsey in May 1991.
It also means Lodzinski cannot be tried again, which would violate a prohibition on so-called “double jeopardy” or being tried twice for the same matter, her attorney Gerald Krovatin said. As time passed and no charges were filed, Lodzinski went on with her life and had two other children. She was living in Port St. Lucie, Florida, in 2014 when authorities in New Jersey charged her with killing Wiltsey. Investigators said a break in the case had come when Wiltsey’s former babysitters identified a blue blanket, found along with the boy’s body, as belonging to Lodzinski.
The plot thickened after a deeply split state Supreme Court ruling in May upheld the appeals court’s decision. With Chief Justice Stuart Rabner not participating, the court split 3-3, but it was enough to leave the conviction undisturbed.
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