Update: Tracey Grissom denied new hearing, sentencing.

[yallerdawg]

"Convicted murderess" Tracey Grissom and her defense attorney had their request denied. She and her team will now move on to formal appeal.

The judge commented, among other things, that the whole issue of mental state and PTSD after her ex-husbands 'alleged' attack was irrelevant when the defense focused on self-defense and lost the case on those grounds. Judge England also allowed that:

...he and the jury heard all they needed to during the first sentencing hearing, which lasted five hours. "That's four and a half hours longer than most of my other sentencing hearings," England said.

I guess justice and mercy are not relevant either.

http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/index.ssf/2014/10/judge_denies_convicted_murdere.html#incart_river