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Article: Winkler trial: No justice for some.
- Article from:
- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2007
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Byline: Melanie B. Smith
Apr. 21--Matthew Winkler did not get his day in court, said Decatur friends of the minister whose wife admitted shooting him in March 2006.
On Thursday a jury in Selmer, Tenn., found Matthew Winkler's wife, Mary, 33, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which carries a punishment of three to six years in prison. Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction. One family friend, Dr. Charles Elliott of Decatur, said the trial outcome seemed like Matthew Winkler "being shot in the back all over again." Matthew Winkler graduated from Austin High School in 1993. His classmates voted him "Mr. Austin," and he played ...
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