{"id":97,"date":"2008-10-05T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/us-woman-loses-appeal-in-milkshake-murder-trial.html"},"modified":"2008-10-05T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T22:36:00","slug":"us-woman-loses-appeal-in-milkshake-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/us-woman-loses-appeal-in-milkshake-murder-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"US woman loses appeal in &#8216;milkshake murder&#8217; trial"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 10\/6\/2008 12:29 AM<br \/><br \/>By DIKKY SINN<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/><br \/>HONG KONG (AP) _ An American woman lost an appeal Monday of her conviction in a Hong Kong court for the beating death of her husband in a sensational case widely known as the &#8220;milkshake murder&#8221; trial.<br \/><br \/>Dressed in black, Nancy Kissel nodded her head and appeared to be holding back tears when a judge announced the decision in the Court of Appeal. Kissel, who suffered a knee injury in prison, limped out of the courtroom aided by two policewomen.<br \/><br \/>The 44-year-old housewife from Minnesota was convicted in 2005 of giving her husband a milkshake laced with sedatives before fatally bashing the wealthy banker on the head with a metal ornament in 2003.<br \/><br \/>Kissel said she was defending herself from an abusive husband and appealed the conviction and her life sentence in prison. But prosecutors argued Kissel was a cold-blooded wife who planned the attack in the couple&#8217;s luxury apartment.<br \/><br \/>Defense attorney Simon Clarke said he was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; but not surprised by Monday&#8217;s ruling.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;This court doesn&#8217;t uphold many appeals at all,&#8221; Clarke said. &#8220;But we are expecting a better hearing at the Court of Final Appeal.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The three-judge panel did not give approval for the case to proceed to a higher court, and Kissel will need to apply for permission to get the Court of Final Appeal to hear the case.<br \/><br \/>The defendant&#8217;s mother, Jean McGlothlin, said her daughter was fragile physically. But she added, &#8220;Her spirit is strong. Her will is strong. Her heart and mind are strong.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The sensational trial has made headlines worldwide because of its allegations of drug abuse, kinky sex and adultery in the wealthy world of expatriates in this Asian financial center.<br \/><br \/>Kissel said her then 40-year-old husband, Robert, an investment banker for Merrill Lynch, was an erratic whiskey-swilling workaholic who also snorted cocaine and forced her to have painful anal sex. She testified that she killed him as he was threatening her with a baseball bat in a quarrel.<br \/><br \/>During the appeal hearings, Kissel&#8217;s defense lawyer said the woman suffered an abnormality of mind that substantially impaired her self-control.<br \/><br \/>But prosecutors argued that Kissel was a cold-blooded, scheming woman who plotted to kill her husband. They said Robert Kissel of New York had been angry about his wife&#8217;s affair with a repairman who worked on the couple&#8217;s vacation home in the northeastern U.S. state of Vermont. He had planned to seek a divorce just before she killed him.<br \/><br \/>Robert Kissel&#8217;s estate was worth US$18 million in life insurance, stocks and properties before he was murdered, prosecutors said.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 10\/6\/2008 12:29 AMBy DIKKY SINNAssociated Press WriterHONG KONG (AP) _ An American woman lost an appeal Monday of her conviction in a Hong Kong court for the beating death of her husband in a sensational case widely known as the &#8220;milkshake murder&#8221; trial.Dressed in black, Nancy Kissel nodded her head and appeared to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[402,401,406,403,404,405,400],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-abnormality","tag-brain-and-homocide","tag-brain-and-self-control","tag-convictions","tag-hong-kong-murder","tag-impaired-self-control","tag-milkshake-murder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US woman loses appeal in &#039;milkshake murder&#039; 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