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Attorneys on Friday continued sparring in court over whether Melissa Calusinski deserves a new trial in the 2011 death of a toddler at a daycare center.
CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports from Lake County Court.
Calusinski isn’t just sad. She is angry, she says.
In a “48 Hours” interview this week, she reacted to word that a key prosecution witness may have lied during her murder trial.
“I just can’t believe people like that could get away with something like what he did,” she says.
Dr. Manuel Montez testified that he’d examined and felt the skull fracture. But a deputy coroner testified Montez never examined the body, and experts say enhanced X-rays show there was no skull fracture.
The bombshell offered hope. Calusinski dares to imagine freedom.
“I would be the happiest person,” she says. “I’d just cry.” Read more >>