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Sabrina Butler's murder trial commenced on March 8, 1990. At the trial, prosecutors sought to prove that
Sabrina's account of the events leading to her son's death were false, and that she had inflicted the fatal wounds intentionally. Sabrina Butler did not testify at her trial. Sabrina was convicted
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On April 11, 1989, teenage mother
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In 1995, Sabrina Butler's case went to retrial. By this time, more evidence emerged about how
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