Sentenced: 2MO Quinn's Tiny Nightgown & Ashes Were On Display In Court

[Sugar Cookie]

They were objects not usually displayed in a court of law:

A tiny nightgown. A calendar of pediatrician appointments and play dates. A box containing the cremated ashes of a 2-month-old girl.

Lehigh County Judge Kelly L. Banach pored over the mementos of baby Quinn Wolfe's short life before sentencing her father, Matthew Wolfe, to 20 to 40 years in a state prison.

"You took a life. You took the life of a baby, a sweet innocent baby," Banach said. "And you did it in your role as her caretaker, her father."

Wolfe, 32, did not respond. Through his attorney, Scott Wilhelm, he asserted his innocence and vowed to appeal.

A jury in January found Wolfe guilty of third-degree murder and child endangerment. The verdict followed a week-long trial that became a battle of child abuse experts. The defense tried pinning the baby's death on Wolfe's former girlfriend, Cristen Sanchez, calling witnesses to the stand who questioned her reaction to her daughter's injuries.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Matthew Falk argued for a lengthy sentence, noting that doctors found evidence that Quinn had healing rib fractures at the time of her death, and that she was both shaken and slammed against a hard object.

Though Wolfe said he didn't want to make a statement, he snapped at the judge angrily at one point when she asked him if he had any questions.

"What, you want me to have a discussion with you?" he asked, before Wilhelm warned him to be quiet.

Banach told Wolfe that his "attitude and snarkiness" were not helping him.

https://www.mcall.com/news/local/po...ntenced-shaken-baby-death-20170317-story.html

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Let's hope he keeps that energy every time he goes in front of the parole board.

 

[Dead Stephanie]

Let's hope he keeps that energy every time he goes in front of the parole board.

Let’s hope he keeps that attitude in front of the prisoners when they find out what he’s done....

 

[Sejanus]

Dear Cell Bock "C",

While the State Corrections Board did not approve your requests for a new Playstation, please enjoy the nearly convicted anus requiring a significant attitude adjustment.

Bon Appetit!

Signed,
Society.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Although he claims he didn’t get a fair trial, a state appeals court panel has refused to void the 20- to 40-year prison term for a father convicted of killing his 2-month-old daughter.

Matthew Wolfe, 34, is serving that sentence because a Lehigh County jury convicted him of third-degree murder in 2017 for fatally shaking and battering the baby.

Judge Paula Francisco Ott rejected Wolfe’s argument that his civil rights were violated when county Judge Kelly L. Banach refused to declare a mistrial when the defense’s key medical expert failed to appear in person to testify.

Instead, the report of that witness, who concluded Wolfe’s daughter Quinn died of a pre-existing medical condition, was read to the jury, Ott noted.

Wolfe claimed that didn’t give him adequate leverage to challenge the prosecution expert’s finding that Quinn had been shaken and battered before being rushed to the hospital in November 2013.

Also, she discounted Wolfe’s argument that he should have been allowed to provide evidence of the post-partum depression suffered by Quinn’s mother.

Likewise, Ott gave no credence to Wolfe’s claim that Banach should have instructed the jury on a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. That wasn’t warranted given the manner of Quinn’s death, Ott found.

Dad convicted of killing 2-month-old daughter got a fair trial, Pa. court says

Matthew Wolfe was convicted of shaking and battering the baby.

www.pennlive.com