GUILTY FL - Audreanna Zimmerman, 19, beaten, burned alive, Ensley, 24 March 2010

[daisy7]

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

 

[JoeFromLB]

Jury recommends death penalty for Tina Brown

Of course, she shows no emotion as the sentence is read.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20120626/NEWS01/120626015?odyssey=mod|mostcom

The update is at the top of the article. The rest of the story below it has not been updated as I post this, so it's a bit confusing.

 

[fhc]

Britnee Miller sentenced

An Escambia County woman has been given life without parole for her role in beating a woman and setting her on fire.

Read More at: http://www.weartv.com/news/features...hout-parole-part-zimmerman-murder-31575.shtml

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

From last month:

Judge maintains life sentence for juvenile who helped beat, kill acquaintance

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/06/judge-maintains-life-sentence-juvenile-who-helped-beat-kill-acquaintance/836854001/

Britnee Miller, 24, pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping in 2012 under the stipulation that if the law ever changed to prohibit juveniles from being automatically sentenced to life in prison, she would be granted a do-over.

That law changed last year under a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said juveniles should have specialized sentencing hearings that allow judges to take into account factors such as immaturity, familial and peer influence, rehabilitation opportunity and brain development factors.

Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh recognized those particular aspects as he read his sentencing order Monday afternoon, ultimately keeping in place Miller's life sentence.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

May 2018:

Death row inmate who set woman on fire claims her attorneys were ineffective

Death row inmate Tina Brown — who was convicted in 2012 for tasing, beating and setting a woman on fire — is again in Escambia County court as she argues for a new trial.

Much of Brown's arguments, which are in a lengthy series of court filings, argue that Lee had more culpability in the crime and that several of the jurors should have been excused from the case.

Her argument comes down to claiming she had an ineffective counsel. The argument is a common appeal in death penalty cases, according to State Attorney Bill Eddins.