JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The state Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of Brandy Nicole Williams in the 2010 death of George County Sheriff Garry Welford.
Williams and her boyfriend, Christopher Lee Baxter, were convicted in 2012 of capital murder. Each was sentenced to life without parole. Williams declined to testify at Baxter's trial.
Welford was struck by a pickup truck in which Williams and Baxter were fleeing from authorities on July 21, 2010. Baxter was sought on an arrest warrant issued after he missed a sentencing date for drug convictions.
Welford was putting spikes at an intersection near the Alabama line to stop the truck and end a high-speed chase.
Baxter and Williams were captured the next morning at a mobile home about six miles north of the scene.
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