LIVE: Will Ashley Benefield be Released on Bond Pending Appeal? Hearing of 1/23/25 ~ Attorney Review
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1:58:29Now PlayingLIVE: Will Ashley Benefield be Released on Bond Pending Appeal? Hearing of 1/23/25 ~ Attorney Review
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c/o Neil Taylor, Esq.
Grimes Galvano
1023 Manatee Ave West
Bradenton, FL 34205
Florida v Ashley Benefield ~
Defendant Ashley Benefield has filed a Motion for Release on Bond Pending Appeal. Today is the hearing on that Motion. Prior to her conviction, she was released on $100,000 bond. Since her sentencing, she has been incarcerated in the Manatee County Jail.
On 12/3/24, Ashley was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by 10 years probation, after a jury found her guilty on July 30, 2024, of the lesser included offense of Manslaughter with a firearm.
Post -Trial Motions~ Defense had made a Motion for New Trial based upon prosecutorial misconduct (specifically during State's Closing & Rebuttal) and juror misconduct, including Juror 15 failing to disclose and concealing that she had been both a perpetrator and victim of DV. Defense asked for and was granted juror interviews. That motion was denied.
On July 30, 2024, after 6.5 hours of deliberation, a Manatee County jury of 5 women and 1 man found Ashley Benefield guilty of manslaughter in the death of her estranged husband Doug Benefield. They jury rejected Ashley's claim of self-defense as a victim of DV and under Florida's stand your ground law.
Ashley Benefield was 24 when she met and married Doug Benefield, 54, within 13 days. A little over 4 years and one child later, on 9/27/20, Ashley would be charged in the 2nd degree m*rder of her by-then estranged husband. Ashley claimed self-defense, battered spouse syndrome and protection under Florida's stand your ground law.
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