A judge will decide whether to overturn the murder conviction of a Knox County woman for the 2003 shooting death of her husband.
A jury convicted Raynella Dossett Leath in 2010 of killing her husband David. She claimed her husband had committed suicide.
Now Leath is asking the judge to overturn her conviction and allow her a new trial. She says there is new evidence, and claims the judge in the case used drugs during her trial.
Judge Richard Baumgartner was the focus of a TBI investigation into illegal drug use. He spent time in prison following a conviction in federal court.
Senior Judge Paul Summers will rule on Leath's request in the coming months.
This isn't the first time Leath has requested a new trial in this case.
Dossett Leath was also accused in the 1992 death of her first husband, Knox County District Attorney General Ed Dossett. He died after being trampled by cattle on his farm, but investigators later determined he may have been drugged and the death staged.
She was charged in Dossett's death, but the charges were dropped after she was convicted in her second husband's death. She actually stood trial twice for Leath's death. The first ended in a hung jury.
