Victim's family pushes for 'Sarah's Law' after killer's conviction vacated upon death
“Sarah’s Law,” named after Sarah Goode, a young mom who was brutally murdered in 2014, would end a legal doctrine that allowed the conviction of Goode’s murderer to be vacated.
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A proposed bill called "Sarah's Law" would end a legal doctrine that allows for a conviction to be vacated when a person dies with an appeal pending.
That doctrine is called abatement ab initio. The family of Sarah Goode supports the proposed law, which is sponsored by New York state Sen. Dean Murray because he says this exact thing happened to their sister's killer.
Dante Taylor, convicted of murdering Goode, killed himself in prison.
His conviction was vacated.
"If you look up the record right now to see how Sarah Goode died, you will not have his name there. He's not guilty. But he is! He is guilty!" said Sen. Murray.
"It erased accountability. It erased justice. It erased Sarah," said Sarah's sister, Jennifer Driver.
