Williams sentenced to 60 years in prison
By Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram | |
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Michele Williams, 45, showed no emotion as state District Judge
The jury of seven men and five women also sentenced Williams to 10 years for tampering with evidence involving the .45-caliber handgun that killed her husband.
The sentences will run concurrently, and she must serve half the sentence before she is eligible for parole, prosecutors said.
After she was sentenced, the mother of her husband,
"Michele, Greg loved and trusted you with his life and business,"
Williams wiped away tears.
"It's good," Slovak said after hearing of the sentence. "It's over."
Williams could have been sentenced to life in prison on the murder charge.
Almost a year ago,
But in interviews with the
Days after those interview, state District Judge
The little girl is now in the care of a family friend, an official with the
During the sentencing phase of the trial Tuesday morning, defense attorneys called no witnesses and Michele Williams also did not take the stand.
"I believe there's something left," defense attorney
Prosecutor
"She's earned every minute," Strickland said in his closing statement. "This is not a crime of passion. It's a cold-blooded execution in which this woman waited for her husband to fall asleep and shot him in the head."
One of the witnesses called by prosecutors on Tuesday morning was Williams' sister,
Other testimony Tuesday morning was about how, after she was arrested, Michele Williams said she was pregnant in
Wisch took the stand Tuesday morning and said he had postponed hearings in 2013 because
"In phone calls to her then-boyfriend, she was crying and upset because she said she had lost the babies," Nutt testified Tuesday morning. The calls occurred on
"No records were found that she had a miscarriage."
A
A statement read to the jurors Tuesday from
Defense attorneys had maintained throughout the trial that
The
Prosecutors told the jury at the beginning of the trial that Michele Williams killed her husband over money.
Documents introduced in the trial indicated that Michele Williams or her young daughter stood to benefit from a total of
Bank records also showed that
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