People Who Were Incarcerated For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

The Pathologist Was Unqualified & Lied On The Stand

Marquardt was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 10 years. She was released on bail in 2013. Throughout the trial, she vehemently denied that she was responsible for her son’s death. The pathologist, Charles Smith, was considered to be an expert on suspicious deaths of children. After years of problems with Smith’s work, then-attorney general Michael Bryant urged a public inquiry into his work. They determined Smith was unqualified, a bad expert witness, and sometimes lied on the stand. Marquardt spent almost 14 years in prison due to misleading statements.