LAWRENCE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Van Buren County woman will be home for the holidays for the first time in 9 years after she was convicted of murdering her husband.
Linda Stermer was released Thursday after a Federal Judge ruled that she did not get a fair trial, citing prosecutorial errors.
She was charged with setting her house and her husband on fire, and then running him over with a truck after he emerged from the burning home.
She has claimed all along that was not what happened.
She was convicted largely on circumstantial evidence.
She was released on $10,000 bond, suggesting that the judge does not consider her to be a flight risk.
The Attorney General’s office has some decisions to make.
They will likely appeal this ruling first. If that fails, they will have to decide whether to retry the case or drop it.
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