Cynthia Galens
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CANANDAIGUA (AP) -- A jury has gotten the case of a woman accused killing her boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at their apartment in western New York.
Cynthia Galens was charged with murder in January, three months after Air Force veteran Thomas Stack died from complications of ethylene glycol poisoning. But a grand jury opted in February for a less severe first-degree manslaughter charge.
The 52-year-old Galens has been on trial for four days.
Investigators say she told them Stack was emotionally and physically abusive and she decided to exact revenge by pouring a shot glass of the toxic automotive chemical into a margarita mix. He died four days later. Galens insisted she intended to make him sick, not kill him.
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