Mother pleads not guilty in son's NYC hotel murder
New York Police detectives enter the Peninsula Hotel Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 in New York. Police say a 9-year-old boy was found dead and his socialite mother near death in a room at the luxury Manhattan hotel, investigating the incident as a possible murder and attempted suicide. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
(AP) — A mother accused of murdering her 8-year-old son before trying to take her own life at a Manhattan luxury hotel has pleaded not guilty.
Gigi Jordan showed no emotion as she entered her plea Tuesday via video link from a hospital. She's been hospitalized since her son died Feb. 5 at the Peninsula Hotel.
Prosecutors say she sent numerous people an e-mail about killing herself and son Jude Michael Mirra before he was found dead and she was found slumped nearby from an apparent drug overdose.
Defense lawyer Gerald Shargel said there's a "valid case" that she shouldn't be held criminally responsible because of her psychiatric condition. He declined to give details.
The 49-year-old Jordan is from Belgium but has been living in New York.
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