CNN -- After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back was released on Tuesday, her lawyer told CNN. Holding baby Breanna, Mary Winkler stands next to Matthew. In the foreground are Mary Alice and Patricia. Mary Winkler, a year-old mother of three girls, was freed from a Tennessee mental health facility where she was treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, lawyer Steve Farese said. Except for her oldest daughter's brief testimony at her trial, Winkler hasn't seen her children in a year, the lawyer said.
Winkler will return to work at the dry cleaners in McMinnville, Tennessee, where she worked before the trial, Farese said. She is living with friends. That leaves 67 days, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment.
That means Winkler might spend only another week in jail. Prosecutors had pursued a murder charge against Winkler, 33, but jurors convicted her of the lesser count of voluntary manslaughter in April.
She could have received up to six years for killing her husband, Matthew, in the parsonage where the family lived in March A day later she was arrested miles away on the Alabama coast, driving the family minivan with her three young daughters inside.
Matthew Winkler's family left the courtroom without commenting, and there was no immediate comment from the prosecution. At her trial Winkler testified she was physically and emotionally abused by her husband, but at her sentencing hearing Friday she said, "I think of Matthew every day, and I'll always miss him and love him. She pleaded to the judge for leniency, and asked to be reunited with her daughters, now with Matthew Winkler's parents.
The judge denied Winkler's request for full probation or judicial diversion, which would have eventually cleared her record of the conviction. Prosecutors sought the maximum sentence for the death of Matthew Winkler, 31, a popular preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small west Tennessee town of Selmer. Prosecutor Walt Freeland described him as a good father and a man who trusted his wife.
Freeland said that just before the fatal shooting bank managers were closing in on a check-kiting scheme that Mary Winkler wanted to conceal from her husband. Prosecutors claimed she had become caught up in a swindle known as the "Nigerian scam," which promises riches to victims who send money to cover the processing expenses. Winkler, however, testified during her trial that her husband hit and kicked her, forced her to look at pornography and demanded sex she considered unnatural.
Jurors were shown a pair of tall, platform shoes and a black wig Winkler said she was pressured to wear during sex. Matthew Winkler's family said at the sentencing hearing that Mary Winkler's allegations amounted to a second attack on him.
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In a seven and a half hour battle, enemy troops were killed. Her boss said her employment was merely seasonal. Since then, we are told she has once again been hired. Winkler moved into a house in Smithville. Action News 5 has difficulty finding any of Mary's former vocal supporters willing to talk about her new house, church, job, or whether she is currently dating anyone.
Her old boyfriend, who once said he was hoping to get back together with her, recently said the relationship is over. Still, Winkler's attorneys say she still has plenty of supporters, and are optimistic she will eventually regain custody of her children. We will be at the custody hearing here in Huntingdon Friday to let you know what happens.
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