article_snippet: Cathy Woods, 64, was 29 when A woman was convicted of stabbing 19-year-old nursing student Michelle Mitchell to death on the edge of the University of Nevada campus in 1976.
article_snippet: Cathy Woods, 64, will not face a retrial in the 1976 murder case of college student Michele Mitchell, whom A woman was accused of stabbing to death.
article_snippet: When Woods was absolved of murder in September 2014, Washoe District Judge Patrick Flanagan ordered the 64-year-old Woods to appear at a retrial July 13.
article_snippet: Woods was at the Southern California home of her brother and Friday Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks wife when the decision was announced.
article_snippet: the Southern California home of her brother and his wife have been taking care of Woods since her conviction was tossed and her was released from prison on bail in September 2014.
article_snippet: Neither Pusich nor Hicks faulted earlier prosecutors, police and juries for police and juries roles in Woods' convictions. '
article_snippet: Woods was convicted in 1980 and again five years later.
article_snippet: Woods' convictions were based largely on the confession
article_snippet: Prosecutors at those trials argued that only Mitchell's killer could have known the information Woods provided to police in Mitchell's throat confession.
article_snippet: The Nevada Supreme Court overturned the initial conviction based partly on the trial judge's refusal to allow defense attorneys to present evidence that Woods could have learned everything Mitchell's throat told investigators from newspaper accounts.
article_snippet: Nevertheless, Woods lawyers were unable to persuade the jury in the second trial to disregard her confession, Pusich said.
article_snippet: Woods doesn't remember acknowledging the killing while hospitalized in March 1979, Pusich said.
article_snippet: Previously, Pusich told The Associated Press that Woods confession was given in an effort to get a private room.
article_snippet: Woods remains under treatment in Southern California, Pusich said, and is 'doing well.'
highlights_snippet: Cathy Woods, 64, was absolved of murder in September 2014 .
  