No Chance To Appeal For Mom Who Poisoned Child

The New York State Court of Appeals, the State’s highest court, has declined to review the murder conviction of Lacey Spears, who was found guilty in 2015 in the salt poisoning death of her son, Garnett.

“I am extremely pleased that the State’s highest court has declined to review Lacey Spears’ murder
conviction, thus bringing greater finality to the jury’s judgement and most importantly, justice for
Garnett,” said Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. in an announcement.

New York State Court of Appeals Associate Judge Jenny Rivera issued the decision denying Spears’
application for Leave to Appeal, which was dated January 15, 2018.

In 2015, a jury found Spears guilty of second-degree murder. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Her son's short life was filled with medical visits, hospitalizations and invasive surgical procedures.

Investigators had traveled to five states and amassed thousands of documents, many about the medical history of the boy which Spears wrote about extensively on social media. Evidence relating to the child's condition included feeding bags containing extraordinary amounts of sodium.

"Throughout his five years, Garnett Spears was forced to suffer through repeated hospitalizations, unneeded surgical procedures and ultimately poisoning with salt, all at the hands of the one person who should have been his ultimate protector: his mother," then-Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore said in a written statement in 2015. "Using the child's "illnesses" to self aggrandize herself, her actions directly led to her son's tortured death. "

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PHOTO: Lacey Spears/Westchester DA's Office