Is Cynthia Sommer guilty? The evidence are certainly against her......
a) poison found in her husband's dead body
b) she went on a shopping spree, blowing over $5,000 in breast implants
c) she had a big party shortly after
d) she had sex with four different guys
You do not go out and spend nor have sex immediately after your husband's death. That's NOT the way to deal with one's grief. I believe she's guilty. She's only sorry she got caught.
[H1]Woman convicted in husband's poisoning death[/H1] [DIV class=storysubhead]Jurors find Cynthia Sommer, 33, guilty of using arsenic to poison her husband in their home at the Miramar base in 2002.
[DIV class=storybyline]By Richard Marosi, Times Staff Writer
January 31, 2007 [/DIV]
[DIV class=storybody]SAN DIEGO — A mother of four was convicted Tuesday of killing her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy, some of which she used for breast implants and lavish parties.
Cynthia Sommer, 33, acted like a grieving widow immediately after her husband, Todd, 23, died in 2002, but within weeks she was holding loud parties, having sex with several men and dancing in a wet T-shirt contest in Tijuana, prosecutors and witnesses said during the monthlong trial.
Circumstantial evidence, including Sommer's spending spree and salacious behavior, helped convince jurors of her guilt despite the lack of direct proof, according to prosecutors.
A seven-woman, five-man jury convicted Sommer of first-degree murder along with the special circumstances of murder by poison and for financial gain. She is scheduled to be sentenced in March and could receive life in prison.
Defense attorney Robert Udell said Sommer had lost her "knight in shining armor" and now faces a potential life sentence because jurors appeared to believe that her behavior was inconsistent with that of a grieving widow.
"Everybody grieves in different ways," he said.
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