PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – In Van Buren County, the retrial of Linda Stermer has begun.
She was convicted in 2010 for the death of her husband, Todd Stermer, who had asked her for a divorce the day before his death in 2007 from injuries suffered in a house fire and being run over by her in a van.
That is Van Buren County Prosecutor Susan Zuiderveen.
Todd Stermer’s clothes had been doused in gasoline but she appealed her conviction.
A federal appeals court ordered a new trial, and said her then-defense attorney, current Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting, should have called his own fire expert in the case.
Skip Kelly is her defense attorney.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
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