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Family members and experts who testified on behalf of an Ensley woman convicted of murder said she came from a broken home that left her unable to make good life decisions.
“I love her,” Cheryl Coleman, Tina Brown’s aunt, said Monday during a hearing that will end with the jury recommending a sentence of either life in prison or death. “She’s my niece, and I’m sad she’s in this situation.”
Brown, 41, was convicted last week of first-degree murder in the March 2010 death of Audreanna Zimmerman.
Brown is one of three women accused of attacking Zimmerman, 19, with a stun gun, beating her with a crow bar, then dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire.
Zimmerman died in a Mobile hospital 16 days after the attack.
Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh is to make the final decision on Brown’s sentence. Today, the jury is expected to offer a recommendation, to which the judge must, under the law, give “great weight.”
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http://www.pnj.com/article/20120626...ubled-life?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
“I love her,” Cheryl Coleman, Tina Brown’s aunt, said Monday during a hearing that will end with the jury recommending a sentence of either life in prison or death. “She’s my niece, and I’m sad she’s in this situation.”
Brown, 41, was convicted last week of first-degree murder in the March 2010 death of Audreanna Zimmerman.
Brown is one of three women accused of attacking Zimmerman, 19, with a stun gun, beating her with a crow bar, then dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire.
Zimmerman died in a Mobile hospital 16 days after the attack.
Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh is to make the final decision on Brown’s sentence. Today, the jury is expected to offer a recommendation, to which the judge must, under the law, give “great weight.”
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http://www.pnj.com/article/20120626...ubled-life?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE