Willoughby v. State

ON DIRECT APPEAL

SELBY, Justice

We are called upon to review Paula Wil-loughby's conviction for Murder, Indiana Code § 35-42-1-1, and Conspiracy to Commit Murder, LC. § 85-41-5-2, a Class A felony, as well as her consecutive sentences totaling 110 years. We affirm the convie-tions, but reduce the sentence to forty years on the Murder count, and thirty years on the Conspiracy to Commit Murder count.

FACTS

Paula Willoughby, Kevin Spore, and Douglas Stueber were co-workers at an Indianapolis business. Willoughby, a married mother of two children, apparently disenchanted with her husband, began an…