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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.See the full content of this document
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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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