Plea bargain gets Stanley 15-year sentence

Photo by Elaine Rackley The Wanda Stanley defense team accepted a plea bargain from prosecutors, Wednesday, in Stanley’s murder trial. Henry County Public Defender Gary Bowman is at left, Jennifer Lewis, center, and Stanley at right. She was accused of murdering her husband.

Wanda Stanley will be spending time in a state prison, after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, as part of a plea bargain offered by prosecutors.

Stanley was on trial for two weeks, accused of fatally shooting her husband, John Stanley, Sr., in December of 2008. She was initially charged with felony and malice murder.

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