A jury found Judy L. Sturm guilty of manslaughter, and the court sentenced her to imprisonment for 10 years. Judy appeals. She asserts that the sentence is excessive.
The victim was Judy's third husband, Harvey, whom she had married in 1969. Judy, age 28, was the mother of a daughter, age 7, by a previous marriage, and of a son, age 1½, by her marriage to Harvey.
Harvey had severely...
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