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Seventeen-year-old Codee Wheeler walked into an Indiana County courtroom at 7:35 Monday evening facing a possible life sentence for murder, but walked out of jail and into the arms of her mother a half-hour later a free woman.
A jury of seven men and five women acquitted Wheeler of all criminal counts related to the March 21, 2007, house fire that killed her adoptive father, William Wheeler, 57. She was charged as an adult with murder, aggravated assault and arson filed by state police and Blairsville police.See the full content of this document
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Blairsville Teen Acquitted in Adoptive Dad's Death
If Wheeler had been convicted of first-degree murder, she would have faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison. But the jury didn't buy the prosecutor's claim that Wheeler intentionally set the fi...
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