Woman convicted after three-day trial: Daisy Coleman faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for her role in the death of her half brother.

From: Daily Press (Newport News, VA) | Date: June 3, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Sabine C. Hirschauer

Jun. 3--SUFFOLK -- One day in September, Daisy Coleman went to a bedroom, got a rifle and placed it on her lap to scare off her half brother, who had threatened to kill her, she said. "I was just kind of looking at it. ... It was like when we were playing cowboys and Indians ... The one who had the gun back then made the rules," Coleman testified Friday during her three-day murder trial. A Suffolk Circuit Court judge didn't think that she murdered James Parker, 52, but he also did not think that she acted in self-defense. Judge Westbrook ...

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