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This is a news article by the globe on Tammy. Explaining also the events that took place.

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Shortly after Tammy Marquardt was sent to prison in 1995 in the death of her two-year-old son, she had the word "freedom" tattooed on her arm.

But it wasn't until Tuesday that she could truly say she was free. The Court of Appeal for Ontario quashed Ms. Marquardt's second-degree murder conviction earlier this year, calling her a victim of a miscarriage of justice and ordering a new trial. But rather than proceed with a new trial Tuesday, the Crown withdrew the charge because of how much time had passed and the "flawed" evidence of the now notorious former pathologist Charles Smith.

Ontario Superior Court Judge Michael Brown said it's tragic that it took so long to uncover Dr. Smith's mistakes and conveyed to her his "deepest regret."

"You're free to go, ma'am," he said.

Ms. Marquardt placed her hand on her chest as she appeared to struggle to catch her breath, hugged her lawyer and moments later walked outside the courthouse clutching a picture of her son Kenneth.

"Honestly, I never thought I would see this day," Ms. Marquardt said. "I thought, 'There is no justice. They're going to believe him and they're not going to believe somebody like me.'"

Dr. Smith, who was recently stripped of his medical licence for professional misconduct and incompetence, testified in her case that Kenneth was strangled or suffocated.

Other experts have since denounced Dr. Smith's findings, concluding Kenneth's cause of death could not be determined, though there is strong evidence the boy was epileptic and could have died from a seizure.

In court, Ms. Marquardt wiped away tears and gently rocked back and forth as her lawyer James Lockyer described how Ms. Marquardt found Kenneth tangled in his bedsheets, quickly turning white and going as limp as a rag doll.

Ms. Marquardt was convicted in 1995 and spent 14 years in prison before being granted bail in 2009. They weren't easy years, Mr. Lockyer said. Labelled a baby killer, the diminutive woman was a pariah among her fellow inmates and attempted suicide, Mr. Lockyer said.

The judge said he hopes that Ms. Marquardt can now move forward with her life, which includes her nine-month-old daughter.

"Nothing I can say to you today will repair the damage that has been caused to you," Judge Brown said. "Nothing I can say will bring back your son Kenneth, for whom you still grieve. I wish my words could do that."

Judge Brown told Ms. Marquardt he couldn't imagine what she went through. Outside court, Ms. Marquardt tried to put it into words.

"Have somebody rip your heart out and hold it in front of your face and just have them squeeze the life out of it," she said. "That's the only way I can express that kind of a pain. It's torturous."

At the time of her conviction, Ms. Marquardt was an impoverished young mother thought to have limited parenting skills and the Crown worked on a theory she strangled her son in a moment of frustration, Mr. Lockyer said in court.

"Tammy Marquardt was essentially an easy target," he said. "She was an easy target for Dr. Smith and I fear she became an easy target for the justice system."

Once considered an unassailable expert on child forensic pathology, an inquiry found that errors in Dr. Smith's work were responsible, in part, for several people being wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for killing children.

Other reports and reviews have noted his errors and his findings have been lambasted numerous times in court in recent years. In a public reprimand from which Dr. Smith was absent, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario called Dr. Smith's actions abhorrent and said he disgraced the profession.

Ms. Marquardt was supported in court Tuesday by her fiance, sister, niece, nephew and Romeo Phillion, a fellow victim of a wrongful conviction.

Like Ms. Marquardt, the Crown withdrew a second-degree murder charge against Mr. Phillion last year after the Appeal Court quashed his 1972 conviction. The judge residing over the case ruled the prosecution withheld a key piece of evidence in Mr. Phillion's original murder trial.

The Ontario government announced last year that it would compensate Dr. Smith's victims and Mr. Lockyer said Ms. Marquardt will be seeking some.

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Murder charge withdrawn against mother who spent 14 years in prison

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Shortly after Tammy Marquardt was sent to prison in 1995 in the death of her two-year-old son, she had the word "freedom" tattooed on her arm. But it wasn't until Tuesday that she could truly say she was free.

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This is a article by the Durham region explaining what she said when she got out and what happened to Tammy.

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Justice at last for wrongly convicted Oshawa woman

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OSHAWA -- Tammy Marquardt walked out of the Oshawa courthouse and into the warm sunshine of a Tuesday morning, strode to a bank of microphones, and smiled. \

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This is a article by the Toronto Star on the events concerning Tammy and what happened to her.

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The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed the murder conviction of a Toronto mother who was imprisoned for life on the basis of flawed testimony from pathologist Charles Smith.

"We recognize this has been a terrible ordeal for you and it's tragic it has taken so long to uncover the flawed pathology that led to your conviction in 1995,"Justice Marc Rosenberg told Tammy Marquardt Thursday morning.

"We agree ... there was a miscarriage of justice," Rosenberg said on behalf of a three-judge panel.

Marquardt emerged from the second floor courtroom into a gathering of supporters.

She hugged her 5-month-old daughter, her niece and her lawyer, James Lockyer.

"Finally, the nightmare is coming to an end and I'm waking up," Marquardt told reporters later outside Osgoode Hall.

The 38-year-old Scarborough native spent nearly 14 years in prison after being convicted of murdering her 2-year-old son, Kenneth Wynne.

Marquardt said the experience of having her child die and then having her two younger sons adopted out through Children's Aid because of her criminal charges was like "having your heart ripped out and having someone squeeze it in front of your face."

"I have been feeling anger for a long time, but anger isn't going to do anything for me," she said.

While other victims of Smith's mistakes have since been acquitted, Marquardt's "dilemma" is that fresh evidence in her case only allows a court to go as far as ordering a new trial, Lockyer told the court.

The evidence is still ambiguous about how the child died but strongly suggests he died as a result of an epileptic seizure, Lockyer said.

In his short life, Kenneth had suffered from asthma and pneumonia and had been treated for seizures eight times.

Smith opined the cause of death was asphyxia, likely the result of smothering or suffocation.

That remains a possibility, given an absence of hard evidence about why Kenneth died, the appeal court was told on Thursday.

At the same time, two neurologists from the Hospital for Sick Children who independently examined the boy's medical records found his demise was consistent with a sudden unexplained death from epileptic seizure.

While three-judge panel set aside Marquardt's conviction, the Crown has not indicated whether it intends to proceed with a new trial.

The court, meanwhile, extended Marquardt's bail.

A few rows behind Marquardt in the courtroom on Thursday was her new baby, Tiffany, who was seated on her grandmother's knee.

Marquardt was also accompanied by her boyfriend, Rick, and two men at the centre of other contentious murder cases.

One was William Mullins-Johnson , who spent 12 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his niece on the basis of Smith's errors.

The other was Gary Comeau, who is battling to overturn his conviction in connection with a Port Hope hotel shooting more than 30 years ago.

Thursday's decision came after forensic experts reviewed the conclusions of the former pediatric pathology superstar and found them illogical and "completely" unscientific.

Smith's evidence dovetailed with the Crown's theory at the time, that Marquardt had suffocated Kenneth in a moment of anger and frustration.

But he was wrong in supporting the Crown's theory and his testimony denied the jury the option of concluding the child had instead died as a result of a seizure, Crown counsel Gillian Roberts told the court.

Marquardt said she found him twisted up in bed sheets and obviously distressed. He was taken to hospital, but died three days later, after being taken off life support.

Nearly two years ago, Marquardt was released on bail. She had been incarcerated in the Grand Valley women's prison in Kitchener.

Kenneth died 17 years ago, in October, 1993.

Her other sons, who she named Keith, now 16, and Eric, 14, live somewhere in Canada, but never had further contact with their mother.

Marquardt said she wants to get her name placed on a registry so they can find her one day if they want to.

"If they want to be in my life, my arms are open," she said.

Last week, Smith was stripped of his medical license by Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He now lives in British Columbia.

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15 years later, court overturns child murder conviction

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The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed the murder conviction of a Toronto mother who was imprisoned for life on the basis of flawed testimony from pathologist Charles Smith. "We recognize this has been a terrible ordeal for you and it's tragic it has taken so long to uncover the flawed pathology that led to your conviction in 1995,"Justice Marc Rosenberg told Tammy Marquardt Thursday morning.

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This is a book written by Jasmine D'costa on the events the happened regarding Tammy.

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This is a image of Tammy after she was released.

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Murder charges dropped against Oshawa mother, Tammy Marquardt

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This is a explanation by a Western University student on Tammy and what happened to her

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Tammy Marquardt- Wrongfully Convicted- Western University

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Larabee from Timmins ON Former crown ward

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Tammy Marquardt, Another Innocent Victim of Charles Randall Smith aka 'Randy Smith' flv