State v. Fernane

OPINION

PELANDER, Judge.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Appellant and her co-defendant, Joseph Stern, were convicted following a joint jury trial of two counts of child abuse and one count of first degree felony murder in connection with the death of appellant’s two-year-old daughter, Katherine Rose Fernane. Appellant was sentenced to mitigated terms of twelve years and twenty-three years on the child abuse counts, and to life imprisonment without possibility of release for thirty-five years on the murder count, the sentences to run concurrently. She appeals from her convictions and sentences,…