Killer mother is home
Exec out after son-slay verdict tossed
Gigi Jordan, the millionaire pharmaceutical exec who was found guilty of force-feeding her 8-yearold autistic son a fatal dose of pills 10 years ago, arrived in Manhattan federal court on Thursday to be fitted with an ankle monitor after a judge overturned the conviction.
Jordan, 60, had been sprung from prison Wednesday night after serving more than 10 years of her sentence after Judge Sarah Cave ordered her released to home confinement on a $250,000 bond.
The judge told her to report to a pretrial hearing by 10 a.m. for the attachment of the GPS device.
She strolled into court wearing a Burberry coat, gray scarf and blue surgical mask, accompanied by another woman. About 90 minutes later, she emerged from the courthouse and didn’t answer a reporter’s questions.
A jury in Manhattan state court found Jordan guilty of manslaughter in 2014 for killing her son, Jude Mirra, with a cocktail of prescription drugs in a luxury suite at the Peninsula Hotel.
During her bizarre six-week trial, Jordan testified that she had killed her son on Feb. 5, 2010, in a state of extreme emotional disturbance, fearing she was about to be murdered by her ex-husband, Raymond Mirra.
She believed that with her dead, Jude would be placed in the custody of his biological father, Emil Tzekov, who she alleged sexually abused him for years. Both men have denied her allegations.
Prosecutors argued that the nurse-turned-businesswoman killed her son out of frustration with his autism, which she had spent years trying to cure. The jury acquitted her of the top murder count.
She was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but Cave tossed the conviction in September because the trial judge had briefly sealed the courtroom over the objection of Jordan’s lawyers.
Prosecutors had requested the closure to discuss online posts criticizing the trial that they believed Jordan had authored. Six hours after the secret hearing, the trial judge realized his mistake and unsealed the minutes of the proceeding.
Cave ruled that while the error hadn’t harmed Jordan’s case, her Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial had been violated.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is appealing the decision and said that if necessary, it would retry the case.
Meanwhile, Jordan must remain home unless visiting her lawyers, doctors or grocery store with permission.