Tammy Felbaum seeks new sentence in husband's castration death
A transgender woman from Butler, Pennsylvania, convicted in the castration death of her husband wants a judge to reconsider her prison sentence and says her trial lawyer was more interested in book and movie rights than in defending her. Tammy Felbaum this month filed a handwritten document from prison appealing the five- to 11-year prison sentence imposed by Butler County Judge William Shaffer. Felbaum was convicted in a nonjury trial of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and the unauthorized practice of medicine in the February 2001 death of her husband, James Felbaum. Prosecutors say Felbaum died from a combination of the pain from a castration performed by his wife and the effects of a painkiller. Tammy Felbaum says her husband castrated himself as a sign of devotion to her. We say, ouch. Philly.com
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