Defense Rests in Baby Grace Trial

Story here. Excerpt:

'GALVESTON, Texas — Attorneys for a mother accused of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter during a daylong discipline session rested their case Monday after presenting only one witness at her capital murder trial.

The jury of seven women and five men was expected to begin deliberating Kimberly Dawn Trenor's fate after closing arguments Monday afternoon.

Trenor's only defense witness, a co-worker of her husband's, testified he believed Royce Clyde Zeigler II seemed to be controlling of his wife. Trenor's attorneys have argued to jurors that Trenor was under Zeigler's control and she was not responsible for the death of toddler Riley Ann Sawyers.'

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Update: Verdict is in: guilty.