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“I pray that further investigation into the scientific evidence convinces the Eappen family that I did their son no harm,” she added.

Woodward, 19, said she was “enormously relieved” by Judge Hiller Zobel’s decision to reduce her conviction from second-degree murder.

That ruling is being challenged by the prosecution for being too lenient, while the defense maintains that Woodward is innocent.

“My relief at being freed does not reduce my desire to obtain total vindication in a case where, as I have said under oath, I committed no crime,” Woodward said in the statement. “I did not harm, much less kill, Matthew Eappen.”

Woodward has been ordered to surrender her passport and remain in Massachusetts pending what could be a lengthy appeal.