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![image: [ Louise Woodward: cannot leave Massachusetts until prosecution appeal is heard ]](/olmedia/images/_39251_nanny_top.JPG)
Woodward appeared in court seeking a change in the order which forbids her from leaving the state until the prosecution's appeal is heard.
The prosecution wants her manslaughter conviction overturned and the original second-degree murder charge restored.
The 19-year-old, from Elton in Cheshire, had intended to spend Christmas in Los Angeles with her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, to visit Sharp's family for the holiday. She has been staying in Sharp's home in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
She was released from prison on November 10 when Judge Zobel overturned her conviction for murdering Matthew Eappen.
He made the controversial decision to impose a verdict of manslaughter with a sentence of 279 days, exactly the time that Woodward had already spent in jail.
On December 3, Justice Ruth Abrams, a Supreme Court judge in Massachusetts, rejected a prosecution bid to have her returned to prison immediately.
At the same hearing, the judge moved to speed up the appeal process. She said the prosecution and defence cases could be presented to the entire seven-member Supreme Judicial Court in March, bypassing the lower Appeals Court.
Louise Woodward's lawyers told Abrams that they would not ask permission for her to travel to England to spend Christmas with her family.
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