A San Diego judge says he will hear a widow’s request that the court block prosecutors from refiling murder charges against her in the death of her Marine husband.

Cynthia Sommer spent more than two years in jail on charges that she poisoned the 23-year-old sergeant with arsenic and used his life insurance for breast-enlargement surgery.

The 34-year-old was cleared of all charges in April after new tests showed no trace of arsenic in her husband’s preserved tissues.

Prosecutors say they don’t want to rule out future charges if new evidence is found.

At Friday’s hearing, Superior Court Judge John S. Einhorn found Sommer has the right to ask for her case to be dismissed with prejudice and set a July 18 hearing.

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Cynthia Sommer – the Long Road Back to Freedom:
http://www.FreeCynthia.com/
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Todd Sommer was not murdered, yet his widow spent 869 days in jail for a crime that never happened.

WHAT SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN is that this case is still not over. The District Attorney has stated that she still wants to leave the case in such a manner that she could re-charge Cindy at some point in the future!

Cindy and her attorney, Allen Bloom, want this case fully dismissed – with prejudice – as soon as possible. Towards that end, a hearing has been set in the Superior Court of San Diego County to determine if the case should be dismissed once and for all time.

This hearing – currently scheduled for July 18, 2008 – will present extensive evidence as to why Cindy’s case should, because of the evidence in the case and the improper conduct of the District Attorney, be dismissed once and for all.

DA Bonnie Dumanis and her hand-puppet Laura Gunn should be ashamed of themselves!

People of San Diego County – be afraid, be very afraid.

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Cynthia Sommer – the Long Road Back to Freedom:
http://www.FreeCynthia.com/
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I knew Cindy was innocent and I never waffled on this. Laura Gunn, should be ashamed, and the statements made tonight by her office was nothing but CYOA!!!!! Pitiful.

Enjoy your life Cindy, one marine lifer to another. We know the deal
We always did.
Videos here:

http://cbs8.com/
Kat

SAN DIEGO — San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis filed a motion Thursday to dismiss murder charges against a woman who was accused of poisoning her Marine husband.

Cynthia Sommer was originally convicted of killing Sgt. Todd Sommer, 23, in 2002. He was in top condition when he collapsed and died on Feb. 18 at the couple’s home on the Marine Corps’ Miramar base in San Diego. His death was initially ruled a heart attack. Tests of his liver later found levels of arsenic 1,020 times above normal.

Dumanis is expected to discuss the decision at a news conference at 5:30 p.m.

In November 2007, San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh found that Cynthia Sommer, 34, received ineffective representation from her former defense attorney. Deddeh said the attorney’s errors allowed prosecutors to introduce evidence about Sommer’s wild behavior immediately after her husband’s death. A new trial date was set on Dec. 20.

Sommer was convicted in January 2007 of first-degree murder with special circumstances counts of poisoning and for financial gain in the death of her husband Todd Sommer in 2002. Shortly after her conviction, she maintained her innocence during an interview, which took place at Las Colinas Women’s Detention Center in Santee.

On Tuesday, Sommer met with a reporter from “Dateline NBC” and spoke about the night Todd died, saying that she tried to revive him and called 911.

“Listening to the tape is all I really remember — it’s such a blur,” Sommer said. “I don’t remember where the phone was. I was crying for my daughter, kind of screaming.”

Sommer told “Dateline” she still believes her husband died of food poisoning. She said he exhibited symptoms including diarrhea and a high fever.

During her first trial, witnesses testified that Sommer partied hard in the days after her husband’s death. Witnesses said she slept several with different men and exposed her breasts to people at a nightclub in Mexico. When asked about the behavior Tuesday, Sommer said, “I didn’t kill my husband, so I wasn’t doing things to hide anything.”

Regarding her many sex partners during that period, Sommer said, “I wanted someone to hold me. I wanted my husband back. I missed him. I didn’t have him, and the closest thing I could have were his friends.”

Check back here for updates on this breaking news story.

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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. – Albert Einstein

NO LINK between Cindy and arsenic – she didn’t research it, she didn’t discuss it, and she didn’t purchase it…

NO paper trail.

The Medical Examiner, Glen Wagner, was baffled by the results of the heavymetals testing, so he contacted his old colleague, Jose Centeno.

Centeno admitted that he initially had reservations about the test results andconsidered whether the tissues had been contaminated. Centeno said, “I had never seen such high levels of arsenic.”

In the e-mail he sent to Wagner, Centeno said he was surprised by the highlevels of arsenic found in the liver and kidney, which were inconsistent with the negative results in the blood and urine. He said he had considered, and then rejected the possibility, that the samples could have been contaminated upon collection.

WHY did he reject that possibility?
WHY was the Death Certificate Amended?

This should have never been labeled a murder; and therefore, should have nevermade it to a jury.

The scientific evidence does not support death by arsenic poisoning. There is no evidence Todd was murdered.

Todd Sommer was not poisoned. The first mistake was when they labeled this a murder… the second was when they said Cindy did it… Correct the first mistake, and the second one corrects itself.

Think about it! This could be YOU or somebody you love.

NCIS launched an investigation into Todd’s death in May of 2003. Cindy was arrested for murder in 2005.

Despite: claims by investigators that the tape recorder used in the initial interview with Cindy “broke” and they reconstructed the interview from memory; babysitter testimony that conflicts with that of first responders and telephone records; and countless lab discrepancies including breaks in chain of evidence, no quality controls, and defense expert testimony that the results of the AFIP heavy metals testing were inconsistent with arsenic poisoning; Cindy Sommer was found guilty in January 2007 of murder by arsenic poisoning for financial gain.

The scientific evidence does not support death by arsenic poisoning. There is no evidence Todd Sommer was murdered.