Sunday, March 4, 2012

TEACHER FRAMED, ATTORNEY CLAIMS.(Local)

Byline: Kiley Armstrong Associated Press

Defense attorney David Lewis, invoking images of the Salem witch trials, said in closing arguments Monday that Carolyn Warmus was framed for a killing that several other people might have committed.

Lewis, intermittently roaring and whispering, tried to cast doubt on the prosecution's witnesses and circumstantial evidence against Warmus, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher and millionaire's daughter who is charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession.

The prosecution claims Warmus pumped nine bullets into Betty Jeanne Solomon, 40, on the night of Jan. 15, 1989 - then met Mrs. Solomon's husband, …

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