Today's sentencing ends more than eight years of legal process following the death of Jason Corbett in 2015.
Molly Martens Corbett and her father Tom Martens were sent back to jail for between seven months and 30 months for the manslaughter of Mr Corbett.
Molly Martens met Jason Corbett when she moved to Limerick in 2008 to work as a nanny for his two children from his first marriage to Margaret 'Mags' Corbett, who had died two years earlier from an asthma attack. Prosecutors told the trial that the pair beat Mr Corbett to death with a brick and a baseball bat, administering at least 12 blows to his head and crushing his skull.
Several members of the jury wept as they were asked to individually deliver the verdicts they reached in the case. Molly and Tom Martens appealed their convictions, with lawyers for the pair telling the North Carolina Court of Appeal that they did not get a fair trial, and that the trial judge had excluded critical evidence in their case that would have corroborated their client's claims.
Lawyers also claimed the jury in the trial had disobeyed instructions from the judge not to have conversations among themselves about the case.
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