March 21, 2013
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A 75-year-old woman was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for killing her teenage grandson last spring in her Detroit-area home, after jurors rejected her claim that she shot him six times in self-defense.
Sandra Layne cried quietly when she heard the verdict, which was delivered during the first full day of jury deliberations. She was also found guilty of using a firearm during a felony and likely faces at least 14 years in prison for the death of her grandson, Jonathan Hoffman.
Defense attorney Jerome Sabbota said later that Layne was “devastated” by the verdict.
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Sandra Layne leaves the stand for a recess after testifying in the Oakland County Circuit Courtroom of Judge Denise Langford Morris in Pontiac, Mich., Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Layne, 75, is charged in the slaying of her teenage grandson. She said she shot him in self-defense because she feared the drug-crazed 17-year-old would harm her. Defense attorney Stephanie Sabbota is at right. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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March 6, 2013
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As a 17-year-old who had been shot by his grandmother pleaded with a 911 dispatcher to send help, the 75-year-old woman shot him again, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in suburban Detroit.
Just as Jonathan Hoffman “thought he was safe … Sandra Layne walks up and shoots him again. This time in the stomach,” Paul Walton, Oakland County’s chief assistant prosecutor, said during his opening statement in Layne’s first-degree murder trial.
Defense attorney Jerome Sabbota countered that the diminutive Layne feared for her safety during the fatal May 18, 2012, confrontation in the West Bloomfield Township condo Hoffman shared with his grandparents.
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Sandra Layne smiles at her family while entering the court room of Oakland Circuit Judge Denise Lagnford Morris for her murder trial in Pontiac, Mich. on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Layne is charged with fatally shooting her 17-year-old grandson. Layne has been jailed since May on first-degree murder and gun charges in the slaying of Jonathan Hoffman, who was shot multiple times May 18 in Oakland County’s West Bloomfield Township, northwest of Detroit. Hoffman was living with his grandmother while on 12 months’ probation.
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