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HOUSTON – Susan Wright, who captured headlines around the globe in 2004 when the housewife and mom went on trial for murder, was formally released from the state’s custody on Wednesday morning. Wright was convicted in 2004 of stabbing her husband, Jeff, 193 times and burying him behind the carport of their northwest Harris County home in January 2003. According to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Wright was officially released from custody at 9:30 a.m. KPRC 2′s crew at the Gatesville, Texas, prison said they have not yet seen Wright walk out of the facility. The TDCJ spokesman said terms of Wright’s parole include anger control training, counseling and obtaining gainful employment. She is also prohibited from leaving the state.
The trial
Wright’s lawyers argued the mother of two was abused at the hands of Jeff Wright and so were their two young children. Then-Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler pulled the blood-stained bed into the courtroom and reenacted the stabbing while straddling her co-council.
RELATED: Susan Wright gets email saying her children died, but they didn’t
A Harris County jury convicted Susan Wright of murder and sentenced her to 25 years in prison. The sentence was later reduced to 20 years after an appeal.
KPRC 2 legal analyst Brian Wice represented Wright pro-bono during the appeals process.
TV movie
Wright’s case was turned into a television movie in 2012. It aired on the Lifetime network. Wice had a role in the movie and said not everything in the movie, which was billed as being based on a true story, was not entirely accurate. Wice said any money raised from the production was donated to Wright’s two children.
Copyright 2020 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.
The news said she cannot leave the state of Texas for the next four years..........bad news for us Texans!
The trial
Wright’s lawyers argued the mother of two was abused at the hands of Jeff Wright and so were their two young children. Then-Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler pulled the blood-stained bed into the courtroom and reenacted the stabbing while straddling her co-council.
RELATED: Susan Wright gets email saying her children died, but they didn’t
A Harris County jury convicted Susan Wright of murder and sentenced her to 25 years in prison. The sentence was later reduced to 20 years after an appeal.
KPRC 2 legal analyst Brian Wice represented Wright pro-bono during the appeals process.
TV movie
Wright’s case was turned into a television movie in 2012. It aired on the Lifetime network. Wice had a role in the movie and said not everything in the movie, which was billed as being based on a true story, was not entirely accurate. Wice said any money raised from the production was donated to Wright’s two children.
Copyright 2020 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.
The news said she cannot leave the state of Texas for the next four years..........bad news for us Texans!