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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 6, 1995                   TAG: 9504110026
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MATT CHITTUM
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

WOMAN WHO KILLED BOYFRIEND DENIED APPEAL

A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals has refused to hear the appeal of a Bedford County woman convicted last year of murdering her boyfriend, her attorney said Tuesday.

Harry Garrett had argued that Nellie Sue Whitt, 46, deserved a new trial because of insufficient evidence and pretrial publicity.

Garrett was especially concerned about the testimony of Whitt's mother, Vera Horn, who testified that Whitt confessed to hitting and killing Roy Thompson with his pickup truck to collect $100,000 in life insurance.

Whitt, who is incarcerated at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women in Goochland, will be eligible for parole in 2002. 


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