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| Friday, September 1 Associated Press | |||
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Prosecutors filed a motion Friday asking
a judge to decide if Deidra Lane can face the death penalty if
convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her
husband, NFL running back Fred Lane.
Mecklenburg County Superior Court Judge Shirley Fulton scheduled
a Sept. 18 hearing on the state's motion.
Telephone messages left with lead prosecutor Marsha Goodenow and
defense attorney Henderson Hill were not immediately returned.
Deidra Lane, 25, is out of jail after posting a $100,000 bond
last week.
On a recording of her 911 call July 6, Deidra Lane said her
husband choked and hit her and said her baby wasn't his child
before she fatally shot him in their southeast Charlotte home.
The 11-minute tape of the telephone conversation between Deidra
Lane and the operator was released by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police
on Tuesday, one week after murder warrants were issued against her.
"I was standing here and he came in. I just had the baby seven
days ago," Deidra Lane says on the tape, screaming and sobbing.
"And he came in and he started choking me. He was like, 'That
baby's not mine.' He started hitting me. He just got shot because
he wouldn't leave me alone. I kept telling him to stop."
Deidra Lane surrendered to police on Aug. 23.
Prosecutors said Deidra Lane shot her husband to collect on a $5
million life insurance policy. At a bond hearing last week, they
accused Deidra Lane of walking through her husband's blood on the
floor, putting the shotgun to the back of his head and firing
again.
Hill said after the bond hearing the defense will present
another side of the story at trial.
On the 911 tape, Deidra Lane says, "I was so scared, I just
shot him again."
In March, Deidra Lane filed a domestic violence complaint
against Fred Lane, accusing her husband of snatching a necklace
from her neck during an argument. She later said her husband
"never put his hands on me."
Lane played three seasons with the Carolina Panthers before
being traded to the Indianapolis Colts in April. | ALSO SEE
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