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A mother of four is pleading with Connecticut officials for leniency as she faces a five-year prison sentence for stabbing another woman who survived an act she insists was self-defense, but which prosecutors and a jury called a premeditated assault.
Latasha O'Bryan, of New Haven, said her four boys, ages 2 to 15, will end up in state foster care if she goes to prison because none of her relatives is able to care for them. The family currently is living in a homeless shelter as O'Bryan tries to get an apartment, after giving up their place in her parents' home for ailing relatives.
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O'Bryan, a 34-year-old home health care aide, was convicted by a New Haven Superior Court jury of attempted first-degree assault and second-degree assault in April 2012. She was sentenced to the mandatory minimum five-year prison term required by the attempted first-degree assault law.
Prosecutors said O'Bryan plunged a knife more than 3 inches into Lawanda McCrae Murdock's chest on Memorial Day in 2010, just missing vital organs. The two women had been in a feud that included a spat over a man, Cone said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/connecticut-mother-facing-prison-pleads-leniency-36104958