Nanny Convicted in Baby’s Death Moves from Law to Dance

Louise Woodward, the teen nanny convicted in 1997 for the shaking death of her 8-month-old charge, was close to becoming a British lawyer before changing her career in 2005.

Woodward has kept a low profile since a Massachusetts judge reduced Woodward’s conviction to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her to time served, the Boston Herald reports. In England, she attended law school and was training at a solicitor’s firm when she changed careers.

Now Woodward is a dance instructor who teaches salsa, tango and ballroom dance.

The star prosecution witness in Woodward’s case later had doubts about the existence of shaken baby syndrome. He wrote in a 2007 paper that science today could have exonerated Woodward.

A hat tip to Legal Blog Watch.