Posted on 04/26/2023 6:06:24 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A woman has admitted to dressing up as a clown and fatally shooting her husband's first wife at the victim's Florida home more than 30 years ago, though her attorney still maintains her innocence.
Sheila Keen Warren, 59, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Palm Beach County court on Tuesday as part of a plea deal reached weeks before her trial was set to begin. She was arrested in 2017 for the murder of Marlene Warren, who was shot in the face after opening the front door of her home in Wellington in 1990 and died two days later.
Keen Warren withdrew her plea of not guilty and changed her plea to guilty during Tuesday's court appearance. The plea deal calls for a 12-year sentence, though Keen Warren's attorney, Greg Rosenfeld, told reporters outside the courtroom that he expects her to be home in 10 months. If convicted, she faced a life sentence.
Keen Warren, who has been in jail since her arrest, will receive 2,039 days of credit toward her sentence, Judge Scott Suskauer said while accepting the deal.
Rosenfeld called the plea "a big win for our client" -- while continuing to deny her guilt in the shocking crime.
"It was an incredibly hard decision for our client, saying you did something that you didn't do," Rosenfeld said. "I mean, nothing's harder than that."
"Our client wanted to go home," he added.
During the hearing, prosecutors outlined evidence they would have brought forward during the trial that they say implicated Keen Warren in the fatal shooting on May 26, 1990 -- including testimony from witnesses from a local costume shop that placed her buying a clown costume and wig approximately two days before the incident.
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Well, getting shot in the face must come close, in his lawyerly speak.
“It was an incredibly hard decision for our client, saying you did something that you didn’t do,” Rosenfeld said. “I mean, nothing’s harder than that.”
If during the Care inquiry, he knew his client was perjuring herself, why is this guy not up for a grievance?
I seem to vaguely remember this case, somewhere back in the cobwebs of my mind….
why did it take 27 years to bring her to justice?
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Saw “killer clown” and thought it was Biden in his announcement video wanting to ‘finish the job.’
How did she not get first-degree.
This had to be premeditated.
She was charged with first-degree, and conviction was a possible outcome of a jury trial. Second-degree was what it was pled down to. She has been in jail since September 2017.
Only twelve years for point-blank murder? Ridiculous.
Home in 10 months? It used to be in Florida that you had to serve at least 85% of your sentence. Dunno about now.
Read up on the Alford plea. Admitting you’ll be found guilty but saying you didn’t do it.
Another “Killer clown” article posted on FR today, about the passing of the prosecutor of John Wayne Gacy (the more notorious “killer clown").
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