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Elderly woman gets new murder trial
Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2008-08-09 00:52
Story here. Excerpt:
'An elderly woman convicted of killing her 85-year-old ex-boyfriend because she thought he was seeing another woman was granted a new trial Friday, more than two years after she was sentenced to life in prison.
A jury convicted 81-year-old Lena Driskell of killing Herman Winslow in 2005 at the Atlanta assisted living home where they had both lived, but her new attorneys argued that her defense team was ineffective.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville agreed, saying Driskell's previous lawyers didn't object to key testimony and didn't press for a charge of manslaughter, which carries a lesser sentence.'
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The Andrea Yates Effect
Just like Andrea Yates who was initially convicted of murdering 5 children but was given a new trial and won the judicial lottery by getting a temporary insanity judgment this killer will probably get the same. Possible plea deal of reduced charge of manslaughter and released with time already served. There will be no protests or public outrage of course.