Second Indictment
Kissel was re-indicted on a single count of murder on 2 March 2010, with the retrial due to start on 10 January 2011.
According to the defense, Robert Kissel told his wife on the night of 2 November 2003, that he was filing for divorce, saying that the decision was final, and that she was unfit to care for her children. Defense also alleged she had long suffered from provocation, physical and sexual abuse long before that night. Nancy Kissel pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility and provocation. Kissel admitted to having an extramarital relationship with a TV repairman, and prosecution alleged that she planned to run away with her lover in the United States after her husband's death, and that she stood to inherit her husband's estate worth US $18 million.
On 25 March 2011, after hearing evidence from over 50 prosecution and defense witnesses over ten weeks, the jury of seven women and two men unanimously found Kissel guilty as charged. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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