SYRACUSE (AP) -- A defense lawyer is asking a judge to set aside the conviction of an upstate New York woman found guilty of killing her husband with antifreeze and trying to poison her daughter with a deadly cocktail of alcohol and prescription drugs.
Defense lawyer Charles Keller says jurors didn't follow Judge Joseph Fahey's legal instructions during deliberations in the case of Stacey Castor.
Fahey told jurors they had to be convinced "to a moral certainty" that Castor's daughter Ashley Wallace wasn't the actual killer, as the defense claimed. Keller says the jury didn't do that.
Castor is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. She faces up to 50 years to life in prison on murder and other charges.
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