The Supreme Court has rejected a special appeal for a retrial for a 78-year-old woman who was convicted and served time for murdering her brother-in-law in 1979, her lawyers said Wednesday.
The top court upheld a high court decision that new evidence presented in the case was not sufficient to hold a new trial, they said.
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