She was arrested in 2001 and could have been sentenced to death if found guilty at trial.
It appears that the prosecutors didn't think they could get a guily verdict for the death penalty, so they settled for her pleading guilty to a twenty year sentence charge.
It appears that the prosecutors didn’t think they could get a guily verdict for the death penalty, so they settled for her pleading guilty to a twenty year sentence charge.
that was not in the excerpt, thank you
She was released early. The plea deal in 2002 was for a 25-year sentence so she served only 20 years of the 25-year sentence. Outrageous.