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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMontana woman gets 30 years in prison for pushing husband off a cliff
MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - A Montana bride who shoved her husband off a cliff at Glacier National Park was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday after a federal judge denied her request to withdraw her guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder.
Attorneys for Jordan Graham, 22, had sought to rescind a guilty plea she entered in December, saying prosecutors were overreaching by seeking a life sentence and reneging on an agreement that they expected would involve less prison time.
But U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied the request at a hearing in Missoula, and later sentenced Graham to 30 years in prison with no chance for early parole, followed by five years of supervised release.
"Jordan Linn Graham didn't have the human capacity to feel the wrongfulness of what she'd done, to seek help or even tell his (her husband's) mother," Molloy said.
Graham has admitted in court to pushing her husband of eight days off the edge of a cliff last July. She said that on the day he died, the newlyweds had driven to the Montana park and walked down to an embankment on the cliff face, where she told him she wasn't happy and "wasn't sure we should be married."
Attorneys for Jordan Graham, 22, had sought to rescind a guilty plea she entered in December, saying prosecutors were overreaching by seeking a life sentence and reneging on an agreement that they expected would involve less prison time.
But U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied the request at a hearing in Missoula, and later sentenced Graham to 30 years in prison with no chance for early parole, followed by five years of supervised release.
"Jordan Linn Graham didn't have the human capacity to feel the wrongfulness of what she'd done, to seek help or even tell his (her husband's) mother," Molloy said.
Graham has admitted in court to pushing her husband of eight days off the edge of a cliff last July. She said that on the day he died, the newlyweds had driven to the Montana park and walked down to an embankment on the cliff face, where she told him she wasn't happy and "wasn't sure we should be married."
http://news.yahoo.com/montana-bride-pushed-husband-off-cliff-cannot-withdraw-155511714.html
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Montana woman gets 30 years in prison for pushing husband off a cliff (Original Post)
davidn3600
Mar 2014
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. That's some quickie divorce.
JI7
(89,244 posts)2. should have been life
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)11. If it had been
a man pushing a woman off of a cliff, it would have been. If they allow time for good behavior, she'll be out before she's fifty, and he'll still be dead.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)3. lessons learned?
Never stand between your woman and a cliff.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)4. Why the hell would you admit that?
He tripped and fell. End of story.
The simplest lies are the easiest to defend. Too bad for her she blew it right away by not calling 911.
Awesome for justice she's a terrible liar.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)6. She confessed after the FBI caught her in a lie and figured out she fabricated an email message
Her story didnt add up.
She also exhibited odd behavior both before and after.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)7. I'm guessing she didn't plan it.
Seems like the easiest thing in the world to get away with. It must have been spontaneous and she panicked.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)8. She got off easy!
morningfog
(18,115 posts)9. 30 years with no parole is not easy, not by any stretch.
That is not "easy" for any crime.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)10. ask her husband if she got off easy!
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)12. I am sure he deserved it
he was a man