By Associated Press - Friday, April 3, 2015

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A 30-year-old southern New Mexico woman has pleaded no contest in a man’s fatal beating of her boyfriend with a wooden baseball at her urging.

The Las Cruces Sun-News (https://goo.gl/9Znwyy ) reports that 30-year-old Rebecca Gomez had faced first-degree murder and multiple other charges for her role in the 2013 killing of 37-year-old Jerome Saiz but pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and kidnapping.

Leonard Telles was convicted in January of second-degree murder and other charges for killing Saiz. He is serving a 39-year prison sentence.



Prosecutor Daniel Sewell said he agreed to request an 18-year prison sentence for Gomez.

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