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08-14-2003, 01:03 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The widow of NFL running back Fred Lane pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for shooting him to death three years ago as he walked into his home.
Deidra Lane could get more than 19 years in prison. Sentencing was set for an unspecified date in September.
``I would like to apologize to the Lane family,'' a weeping Lane, 28, said at the hearing Thursday. ``I'm sorry for the loss and the pain this has caused.''
Authorities said she ambushed her 24-year-old husband at their Charlotte home in July 2000, hoping to cash a $5 million life insurance policy. Lane and her attorney had said she was a battered wife who shot her husband in self-defense.
In an unrelated case, Diedra Lane pleaded guilty last October to a 1998 scheme in which she and a bank teller stole more than $41,200 from the bank. She was sentenced to the minimum four months on the federal conspiracy charge.
Deidra Lane could get more than 19 years in prison. Sentencing was set for an unspecified date in September.
``I would like to apologize to the Lane family,'' a weeping Lane, 28, said at the hearing Thursday. ``I'm sorry for the loss and the pain this has caused.''
Authorities said she ambushed her 24-year-old husband at their Charlotte home in July 2000, hoping to cash a $5 million life insurance policy. Lane and her attorney had said she was a battered wife who shot her husband in self-defense.
In an unrelated case, Diedra Lane pleaded guilty last October to a 1998 scheme in which she and a bank teller stole more than $41,200 from the bank. She was sentenced to the minimum four months on the federal conspiracy charge.