103:. DeVault filed a 300-page confession with the Gilbert police where she detailed the years of alleged abuse, stating that Harrell had beaten and raped her on January 14, prompting her to assault him with the hammer. She also reported that Harrell had frequently sent her to the hospital and that he had once, in front of several witnesses, shoved her and dislocated her shoulder, which one of the witnesses helped pop back into place. During this time, police interviewed friends of DeVault and Harrell. The police found that they had no evidence to corroborate claims that Harrell had been abusive towards DeVault. They also mentioned that DeVault had lied to them in the past about receiving a large inheritance from the death of her stepfather, who was in fact not deceased. DeVault was also discovered to have lied about an older lover she was seeing, Allen Flores. She borrowed over $ 300,000 from Flores, who had been introduced to police as an ex-lover of her stepfather. Flores' house was searched twice, and the police located a computer with
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Allen Flores the $ 300,000 she had borrowed from him, while DeVault's defense attorneys claimed that DeVault acted in self-defense. The defense also stated that DeVault had experienced abuse as a child and that her mother had physically abused her, while her stepfather had sexually abused her. Dr. Jon Conte, a
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In a statement to the court, DeVault apologized for the murder, saying that she was "sorry, not only for my actions but for everyone I hurt". She also addressed
Harrell's parents, stating, "My heart goes out to them...his mother and father have had to experience the worst loss in the world – the loss
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February 9, 2009, Harrell died of his wounds and a grand jury indicted DeVault for first-degree murder. At 3:00 a.m. the next morning, DeVault was assaulted by an unknown assailant as she was jogging, suffering a broken jaw and ankle. Following the beating, police investigated a man who lived
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Harrell was beaten by an unknown assailant who had broken into the home. She later confessed that she had beaten Harrell as an act of self-defense and alleged that Harrell was physically and sexually abusive. DeVault was arrested the same
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that caused him to suffer from short-term memory loss— neither he nor DeVault could provide details concerning his involvement. Police found no evidence linking Cook to the crime; indeed, forensic evidence ruled out Cook had been the assailant. When confronted with this fact, DeVault confessed that
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instead of the death penalty, and
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery stated that "imposing the death penalty in any circumstance is difficult, and in this one, the jurors felt that a life sentence was appropriate". On June 6, 2014, the judge sentenced DeVault to life in prison without the
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that was also knowledgeable about the effects of child abuse, testified on behalf of the defense, stating that he believed that DeVault's actions were consistent with a long history of childhood abuse. One of DeVault's children also testified that she had witnessed
Harrell abuse her mother. The
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and was held at a local jail, but was later released on bail. Officers noted that DeVault had reddened marks upon her neck and that they had found a hammer covered with blood at the crime scene. In early
February 2009, DeVault was indicted for attempted murder and released on bond.
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