The Alberta Court of Appeals has reduced the sentence of a woman who admitted shooting her husband and dumping his body in a mud pit.
Helen Naslund was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the September 2011 death of Miles Naslund on his farm near Holden, about 100 miles southeast of Edmonton.
In a split decision, the Court of Appeal says a nine-year sentence is more appropriate.
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One of the judges on the three-member appeal panel found the sentence appropriate.
An agreed statement of facts presented at trial said Miles Naslund had a pervasive pattern of abuse against his wife.
A notice of appeal filed in early 2021 said the sentencing judge did not adequately consider the history of domestic abuse.
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He also said that the 18-year sentence brought the “administration of justice” into disrepute.
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