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New York Woman Cleared of Murdering Husband Gets 5yrs for Using Gun
10 November 2011
Reuters
NEW YORK - A New York woman cleared of murder charges in the shooting death of her retired police officer husband was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for gun possession, a decision her lawyer described as disheartening.
In a case seen as a test of the battered-woman defense, Barbara Sheehan, 50, was acquitted of second-degree murder last month after her lawyers successfully argued that she fired a gun at her husband only after he threatened to kill... (GunPolicy.org)