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A Kentucky woman convicted in 2015 of murdering her boyfriend because he planned to leave her was convicted again on Tuesday in a retrial, according to multiple news outlets.
Shayna Hubers’ boyfriend, Ryan Carter Poston, was found dead in October 2012 in his Highland Heights home,ABC News reports. Hubers’ defense argued that Poston, a lawyer, was abusive, but the jury rejected the claim.
That night, Hubers and Poston met at his home. “There were only two ways he was leaving his condo that night — either Shayna’s boyfriend or in a body bag,” Campbell County Assistant Commonwealth Attorney said at trial.
Hubers shot Poston six times, according toCBS’48 Hours.
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A key piece of evidence at trial was a video of a police interview with Hubers hours after the murder in which she danced and sang “Amazing Grace” in the interrogation room and said, “I did it. Yes, I did it. I can’t believe I did that.”
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ABC News reports that during her interrogation, Hubers quipped of the “very vain” Poston, “One of our last conversations we had that was good was that he wants to get a nose job. And I shot him right here. I gave him his nose job he wanted. I broke it.”
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PEOPLE was unable to immediately reach Hubers’ defense attorney, David Eldridge, and it was not immediately clear if she plans to appeal.
At sentencing, Eldridge asked for the minimum of 20 years and said, “Ms. Hubers committed this crime at the tender age of 21 years old and she is mentally ill,” reports theCincinnati Enquirer.
“Those who love Ryan now move forward with the integrity, dignity, and kindness that Ryan exemplified throughout his life,” his family said. “Today we embrace justice, and yet we do not feel joy. It has been six long and heartbreaking years without our beloved Ryan.”
source: people.com
