Marni Yang back in court to appeal murder conviction
Marni Yang is now more than 10 years into a double life sentence in the shooting death of Rhoni Reuter, the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
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Marni Yang is now more than 10 years into a double life sentence in the shooting death of Rhoni Reuter, the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
The murder victim was the pregnant girlfriend of a former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
Whose fingerprint was on murder victim Rhoni Reuter's front door knob?
"They made her seem like this jealous, violent woman, and she was the exact opposite."
The case drew national attention – a woman who was pregnant with former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle's baby was murdered, and a woman with whom Gayle was sleeping on the side was convicted. But now nearly nine years later, the new attorney for Marni Yang says she didn't do it.
A Cook County jury awarded $40 million to the family of Rhoni Reuter on Wednesday, in a lawsuit they filed against the woman convicted of killing Reuter and her unborn child in 2007.
A judge in Waukegan is expected to sentence a former real estate agent to life in prison Friday for the murder of the pregnant girlfriend of ex-Bear Shaun Gayle.
Prosecutors have released the tapes, played in court, of the secretly-recorded conversations in which Marni Yang admitted to the 2007 murder of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bears Safety Shaun Gayle.
A Lake County jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Marni Yang, who is charged with the murder of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle's pregnant girlfriend. The verdict will be read in court Tuesday evening.
As she was being shot to death, Rhoni Reuter wrapped her left arm around her abdomen in an apparent effort to protect her unborn daughter, a pathologist testified Monday.
A Lake County jury heard recorded phone calls of Marni Yang telling a close friend how she'd shot and killed former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle's pregnant girlfriend, Rhoni Reuter, while wearing a disguise.
An ex-boyfriend and a forensic computer analyst testified Wednesday in the trial of Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
For the first time on Tuesday, former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle publicly admitted having a sexual relationship with Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend in 2007.
Former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle could testify this week in a murder trial in north suburban Lake County.
Opening statements are expected to begin Friday in the trial of Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
Five men have now been chosen in the murder trial of Marni Yang, who is charged with the murder of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
A request for a makeover could delay the trial of a woman accused of killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
Relatives of Rhoni Reuter plan to attend the Marni Yang murder trial next week, according to the family's attorney.
A trial will soon begin for Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing the pregnant girlfriend of ex-Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
A Lake County judge has ruled that prosecutors may play two wiretap recordings in which Marni Yang allegedly admits killing the pregnant girlfriend of ex-Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle when Yang goes on trial for murder next month.
The judge of the Chicago woman accused in the shooting of former Bears' girlfriend Sean Gayle last year, allowed unopened mail into evidence in the murder case.
Marni Yang's alibi showed signs of cracking when detectives told her how her own son contradicted her whereabouts the morning of Rhoni Reuter's murder, according to videotapes of her interrogation reviewed during a pre-trial hearing late last week.
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