среда, 7 марта 2012 г.

Texas woman on death row to instead get life term

HOUSTON (AP) — One of 10 women on death row in Texas won an appeal Wednesday that will result in a life prison sentence after her lawyer argued prosecutors improperly withheld evidence about comments made by their key witness from her original punishment hearing.

Chelsea Richardson, 27, was convicted of masterminding the slayings of her boyfriend's parents so he could inherit their $1.56 million estate. She was 19 at the time of the December 2003 killings.

Her appeal focused on what her attorney, Robert Ford, said was a prosecutor's failure to give Richardson's trial lawyers notes from a psychologist that suggested another woman masterminded the plot to kill Rick and Suzanna …

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