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WA woman’s conviction overturned after persuading young son to kill his father with rat poison

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An appeals court has overturned a Mount Vernon woman’s conviction for soliciting to kill her former husband. The Washington Court of Appeals on Monday overturned Vanessa Valdiglesias LaValle’s conviction, The Seattle Times reported.

She had been found guilty in 2021 for trying to persuade her son to kill his father with rat poison. Valdiglesias LaValle was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the conviction, which will now be sent back to trial court.

Valdiglesias LaValle in 2020 told her then 10-year-old son that if he put rat poison in her ex-husband’s food, the boy’s dad would die, and she and the children could live together forever, according to a secretly recorded conversation mentioned in court documents.

The three Court of Appeals Division 1 judges ruled Valdiglesias LaValle’s desire to be with her two children forever doesn’t equate to a "thing of value" necessary to support a criminal solicitation conviction.

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