Molly Corbett swears on the Bible as she pleads no contest to voluntary manslaughter during the hearing at the Davidson County Courthouse in Lexington, North Carolina, on Monday. Photograph: Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal
On Monday the court was told that Molly Martens and Thomas Martens had agreed a plea deal with prosecutors to accept a lesser manslaughter charge over the killing of Mr Corbett. The plea agreement means there will not be a retrial in the case which was ordered by the supreme court in North Carolina after it upheld an appeals court ruling that quashed earlier convictions.Mr Kingsberry said in his opening statement there would be evidence that his client had confided to multiple witnesses about her growing concerns about the death of her husband’s first wife, Margaret, in 2006.He suggested there was a possibility that there had been a homicide from strangulation.
Defence lawyers are likely to maintain there were mitigating factors that should be taken into account.The judge said a defendant with the worst record could face up to 204 months or 17 years in prison. Assistant district attorney in Davidson County in North Carolina Kaitlyn Jones told the court on Monday that Mr Corbett had died in the master bedroom of his home in Panther Creek, North Carolina, on August 2nd, 2015.She said Thomas Martens had told police he had hit Mr Corbett with a baseball bat.
Jason Corbett, who was found on August 2nd, 2015, with fatal head injuries at the North Carolina home he shared with his second wife, Molly Martens
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