NANTICOKE, Pa. — A northeastern Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of her boyfriend last fall.
Authorities in Luzerne County allege that 42-year-old Sherry Ann Cease stabbed 59-year-old John Wolfe during a Nov. 30 argument in his Plymouth Township home.
Police said he fled to a neighbor's house and was later pronounced dead at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
After a preliminary hearing Tuesday, a judge ordered Cease to stand trial on charges of third-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.
Defense attorney Demetrius Fannick said his client was defending herself after she was choked during a domestic dispute. He says "at best" it was a "heat-of-passion situation."
But prosecutors say the evidence does not support the defense version of events.
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