Judge reduces daycare operator’s murder conviction

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A judge has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of a Massachusetts woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care.
The Boston Globe reports that Judge Kenneth Fishman said in his decision to reduce the verdict to involuntary manslaughter that he could not permit the murder conviction to stand “in the presence of such highly contested and inconsistent evidence.”
Pallavi Macharla was convicted in May.
Prosecutors said the 44-year-