U.S. v. WILSON

No. 02-5290.

345 F.3d 447 (2003)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Janalee WILSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 6, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Leigh Grinalds (argued and briefed), Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Stephen B. Shankman (argued and briefed), M. Dianne Smothers (briefed), Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: MERRITT, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.


Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206

OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Janalee Wilson, a former emergency room nurse, injected her husband with insulin on three separate occasions in an effort to cause his death so that she could collect the proceeds from several life insurance policies. On July 29, 1996, her husband died as a result of severe hypoglycemia brought on by an injection of insulin. Soon thereafter, she submitted claims to various...

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