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Man to be resentenced in Kansas woman’s death

Coones- photo Kan. Dept. of Corrections
Olin Coones- photo Kan. Dept. of Corrections

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a woman over a dispute about an inheritance will be resentenced.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of Olin Coones for the 2008 killing of 45-year-old Kathleen Hadley-Schroll of Wyandotte County. But the court vacated his sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 50 years and ordered that he be resentenced.

Prosecutors said Coones killed Hadley Schroll, who had been his father’s caretaker, because he was angry that his father left her some of his estate. Coones was acquitted of killing Hadley-Schroll’s husband, who was also found dead in their home.

The new sentence was ordered because a judge, and not a jury, imposed the sentence, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in June 2013.

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