State high court overturns woman's murder conviction

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The state Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a Cabell County woman who shot her husband with a shotgun in 2004 after he drunkenly beat and sexually assaulted her.

A jury convicted Tanya D. Harden of first-degree murder in 2007, ignoring her argument that she acted in self-defense. She said Danuel Harden Jr., her husband of 11 years, told her that "nobody was going to walk out of the house that night," including their two children.

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State high court overturns woman's murder conviction

In a 44-page opinion published Thursday, Justice Menis Ketchum wrote for a 4-1 majority that Harden had lived through a "night of domestic terror" at t...

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