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Babysitter’s trial in infant’s death heads to jury

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / NOV. 6
                                The judge instructed jurors Wednesday that they were allowed to find babysitter Dixie Denise Villa guilty of the lesser crimes of second-­degree assault or second-­degree reckless endangering. Villa, who is charged with manslaughter, sat in the courtroom earlier in the trial.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / NOV. 6

The judge instructed jurors Wednesday that they were allowed to find babysitter Dixie Denise Villa guilty of the lesser crimes of second-­degree assault or second-­degree reckless endangering. Villa, who is charged with manslaughter, sat in the courtroom earlier in the trial.