Chiesi v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Murder, for which she received a sentence of fifty (50) years, and Murder, for which she received a sentence of sixty (60) years, the sentences to run consecutively.

The facts are: In early 1990, appellant conspired with others to have her husband, David Chiesi, murdered. In the early stages of the conspiracy, appellant informed her son Christopher that she planned to have her stepfather, John Ondras, shoot the victim as an intruder. She in fact did approach her stepfather and ask him to kill her husband. This he refused to do.

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