Saturday, April 24, 1999
Court orders retrial in sisters' murder case
BY KRISTINA GOETZ
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FRANKFORT — Two sisters convicted of murder in 1995 for killing a man while he slept will be retried in Kenton Circuit Court.
The Kentucky Supreme Court this week overturned the convictions of sisters Kimberly Springer and Alexandra Eades, who were both serving 30-year sentences for shooting Ms. Springer's husband.
The high court ordered a new trial on the defense's first argument. It agreed with the women that problems in jury selection caused the trial to be unfair because they did not have enough opportunities to remove potential jurors.
The women, who were tried together, also argued that their respective confessions should have been suppressed as well as evidence of prior sexual acts by Ms. Springer. They said evidence was insufficient to support Ms. Eades' conviction.
Several justices on the high court dissented to various parts of the ruling.
On the day of the murder, Ms. Eades confessed to police that she fired the fatal shot and Ms. Springer confessed to being an accomplice.
At trial, Ms. Springer said she shot her husband because he had physically and sexually abused her and threatened to abuse her daughter. Ms. Eades denied any involvement.
The jury did not believe their story and Ms. Eades was convicted as the principal and Ms. Springer as an accomplice to the murder.
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