Woman Acquitted of Murder Returns to Court

A woman acquitted of killing her husband with a baseball bat said she is angry and sickened that a prosecutor and her former in-laws continue to publicly call her a murderer.

“I thought all of this was supposed to stop when you get a not guilty verdict,” Jeanie Adair, 39, said. “I didn’t do this crime everybody accused me of.”

During a hearing Thursday in San Fernando Superior Court, she asked a judge to declare her factually innocent because “I’m innocent and hopefully it will stop people from saying what they’ve been saying in newspapers and on TV shows.”

Prosecutors said the motion, an unusual petition, is “an outrage.”

“She is the one who keeps the case alive by filing motions without merit,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Marsh Goldstein. “There is no one, including the jury, who has said she is factually innocent except for the defendant.”

A decision is expected next month.

Adair tearfully described how she and her two children kiss and release helium-filled balloons in tribute to her late husband, Robert Adair.

In November 1996, Adair told police an intruder forced his way into her Sylmar condominium, tied her up, beat and robbed her. The incident had gone on for hours, she said, when her husband walked in on the attack and was killed.

She was acquitted Oct. 13.