Sherry Sherrett-Robinson Research Paper

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In March 27, 1996 a 20 year old woman named Sherry Sherrett-Robinson was wrongfully convicted of the murder of her four month year old son named Joshua. She was claimed guilty for suffocating her son to death. But the real story was actually something that slipped out of others minds and she was sentenced to one year in prison for a crime which she did not commit. On January 22nd, Sherry woke up in the morning seeing her baby boy lying face down on his bed. She took him to the hospital where Joshua was pronounced dead. Sherry had to go into a trial against Charles Smith, who was identified as the Crown’s star witness. At the trial Sherry was charged with infanticide, and she unfortunately lost the trial against Charles since her lawyer was

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