SHOTLIST:POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20131. Medium of Sandra Layne in court as jury announces its verdictAP - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20132. SOUNDBITE (English): Paul Walton, Prosecutor:"There was no self-defense. She went up there with a gun. She went up there to confront him. She went up there to prevent him from leaving. It's clear murder, and that's what the jury found."POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20133. Medium of Sandra Layne in court as jury announces its verdictAP - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20134. SOUNDBITE (English): Jerome Sabbota, Defense Lawyer:"I've been saying it all along, we can't do anything that she hasn't already done to herself. Really, because she punishes herself every day. The legal system does what the legal system does. The jury felt that it wasn't appropriate self-defense. They felt that obviously it wasn't premeditated, because they found her guilty of second-degree murder."POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20135. Medium of family members reacting to verdict in courtAP - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20136. SOUNDBITE (English): Jennifer Hoffman, Defendant's Daughter, Victim's Mother:"Pretty torn. It's really hard to comprehend that your own mother could do something like this to your own child. I just know that my son is in heaven, and that's a place that she'll never see."POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20137. Medium of Sandra Layne in court as jury announces its verdictAP - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pontiac, Michigan - March 19, 2013SOUNDBITE (English): Michael Hoffman, Victim's Father:"She was always a thorn in my side to be very honest. She was very difficult, very meddlesome, very controlling, and I never liked her." POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLYPontiac, Michigan - March 19, 20138. Family members react to verdict in courtSTORYLINE:A suburban Detroit grandmother was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for killing her teenage grandson last spring, as jurors rejected her claim that she shot him six times in self-defense. Sandra Layne, 75, cried quietly when she heard the verdict, which was delivered during the first full day of jury deliberations. She was also convicted of using a firearm during a felony and likely faces at least 14 years in prison.(****END****)
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