Acknowledging that the case was the most difficult she'd ever presided over, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Anne Feldman rejected prosecutor Barry Schreiber's request for a maximum term of 25 years to life in prison for Carmichael's second-degree murder conviction.

In 1979, Carmichael and her teenage son, [Gregory Carmichael], beat 3-year old Latanisha Carmichael to death and then hid the body in a footlocker stored in a closet with incense and mothballs.