White Plains jeweler Werner Lippe sentenced to 25 to life for killing wife
New York Post Tuesday 29th March, 2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A New York jeweler was sentenced Tuesday to at least 25 years in prison for incinerating his wife in an oil drum, but not before he called the judge prejudiced, the prosecutor incompetent and his wife’s family and friends a "lynch mob." At an extraordinary sentencing in Westchester County Court, Werner Lippe said he was convicted on "assumptions, speculations and lies." Reading from handwritten notes on a legal pad, and quoting from U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the combative convict said he should not have been found guilty because his three recorded confessions were involuntary and there was no other evidence. No trace of his 49-year-old wife, who was divorcing him, was ever found.
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