Minnesota mom's murder conviction overturned in death of boyfriend 'she wanted to stop talking'

Minnesota mom's murder conviction overturned in death of boyfriend 'she wanted to stop talking'
Stephanie Clark fatally shot abusive boyfriend Don Juan Butler
A Minnesota appeals court has reversed the conviction of a Maple Grove mom who unloaded a handgun into her abusive boyfriend, picked up another and emptied that one too.

Stephanie Clark, 32, was convicted of the murder of Don Juan Butler last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison with 124 days of credit for time served for the March 2020 shooting. She has been in custody ever since, even after the court's reversal, according to her trial lawyer, Eric Doolittle of the Appelman Law Firm.

The case made national headlines when Hennepin County prosecutors alleged she gunned down Butler because she wanted him to "stop talking," but her defense argued there was much more to the shooting than that.

Clark was covered in bruises at the time of her arrest, some of which hadn't fully formed by the time she found herself in a county jail cell, according to her lawyers.

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