Lord v. State

After carefully reviewing the voluminous record in this case, I am unable to agree with the majority that the state has proved the charge of first degree premeditated murder by legally sufficient circumstantial evidence. The state’s theory of events said to prove that Appellant Wiled her husband with premeditation is, in my view, inherently incredible and requires the fact-finder to impermis-sibly pyramid inference upon inference.

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Appellant and her husband, Raddie Lord, were employees of the Department of Corrections. Appellant was charged with first degree murder arising out of the shooting…