Margaret Rudin

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Margaret Rudin (born May 31, 1943), is an American woman convicted in the December 1993 murder of her fifth husband, real estate magnate Ronald Rudin. She is incarcerated at Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center in Nevada.

Early life

Margaret Lee Frost was born in Memphis, Tennessee, one of three daughters. The family moved frequently and she had lived in 15 states before graduating from high school.[1] She had been married four times before meeting Ronald Rudin at the First Church of Religious Science in Las Vegas. They married on September 11, 1987.[2]

Appeal

In 2002, the Nevada Supreme Court denied Margaret Rudin's appeal finding she was not denied effective assistance of counsel.[3] As of 2008, no record of federal collateral review could be found.

In 2008, Rudin was given a new trial. Clark County District Judge Sally Loehrer ruled that lawyers for Margaret Rudin, then 65 years old, were not prepared to defend her at her 2001 trial, according to lawyers on both sides of the case. She also ruled that Rudin's lead attorney at the time, Michael Amador, was not effective, according to Christopher Oram, Rudin's new attorney.[4]

KLTV-8 News reported on 10 May 2010, that the Nevada Supreme Court ruled against convicted Rudin and ruled she would not get another trial. The lower Appeals Court's ruling was overturned and the original conviction stood.[5]

On April 26, 2011, the Las Vegas Sun reported that Margaret Rudin had filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court seeking a new trial and reversal of her conviction based on ineffective assistance of trial counsel, impermissible hearsay testimony, faulty jury instructions and other points.[6]

On January 25, 2012, U.S. District Court Judge Roger L. Hunt dismissed Margaret Rudin’s federal habeas corpus case with prejudice. In a nine-page decision, Judge Hunt found that Rudin’s federal petition was not filed in a timely manner. The ruling paves the way for an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Las Vegas Review-Journal, "The Similarities: Older man, younger woman," January 1, 2001
  2. ↑ People magazine, "Till Death Did Them Part," by Peter Ames Carlin, March 6, 2000
  3. ↑ State v. Rudin, 86 P.3d 572 (Nv Sup.Ct. 2004
  4. ↑ Kihara, David (2008-12-19). "Rudin to get new trial". 'ReviewJournal.com. Retrieved 2009-05-09. 
  5. ↑ "No New Trial for Margaret Rudin.". KLTV-8 News, 8newsnow.com. 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-07-04. 
  6. ↑ "Margaret Rudin seeking new appeal.". Las Vegas Sun, lasvegasun.com. 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2011-04-26. 
  7. ↑ Washington Examiner, "Federal judge rejects Vegas 'black widow' appeal," January 25, 2012

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