WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — An legal professional for a North Carolina woman is asking for a new trial or sentencing after she was convicted of killing her husband on a South Carolina beach.
A legal professional for Kimberly Renee Poole, 40, formerly of Mocksville, is asking for post-conviction relief in Horry County, South Carolina, The Winston-Salem Journal reported.
Poole was convicted in 1999 of first-degree homicide and conspiracy in the 1998 shooting dying of Brent Poole, 24, at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Prosecutors say she was once having an affair with John Boyd Frazier Jr., 47, formerly of Winston-Salem, and asked him to kill her husband. Frazier is serving a 30-year-sentence for murder, armed theft and conspiracy after he was convicted in 2005.
Poole is serving a lifestyles sentence at Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Attorney Charles Grose says Poole’s earlier legal professionals did a deficient task defending her, saying they faithful little time to her case before the trial.
Prosecutors stated Poole was walking on the seaside with her husband when he was shot twice in the pinnacle. She instructed police a robber had killed her husband.
Robert Kittle, a spokesman for the South Carolina Attorney General’s place of job would now not discuss Poole’s request. But Kittle mentioned the place of work will reply to the most recent enchantment within 90 days.
Both the South Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider Poole’s previous enchantment.
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This story corrects the spelling of the legal professional’s first identify in remaining paragraph to Charles, reasonably than Charleston.
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Information from: Winston-Salem Journal, http://www.journalnow.com
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