Bail for a multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive previously convicted of manslaughter in the death of her young son was revoked on Dec. 29 by the Supreme Court a little over a week after the high court ordered her freed.
The rulings are unusual because the Supreme Court doesn’t often involve itself in bail disputes in criminal prosecutions.
The heavily litigated case involves Gigi Jordan, who was convicted by a state jury of giving a fatal dose of drugs to Jude Mirra, her 8-year-old autistic child, in 2010 and was given an 18-year custodial sentence in 2015. Her defense characterized what happened as a mercy killing. At the time she applied to the Supreme Court, Jordan was at liberty, subject to a secured bond, ankle bracelet monitoring, and a court-imposed curfew….