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HONG KONG (AP) - An American housewife convicted of drugging her banker husband with a milkshake before beating him to death received an unfair trial in Hong Kong partly because prosecutors improperly told the jury she didn't want her psychiatrist to testify, a defense attorney said Tuesday.
The argument came on the second day of Nancy Kissel's appeal hearing in what has widely been called the "milkshake murder" case. Kissel was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 after a sensational three-month trial involving sordid testimony about drugs, alcohol and sex in the lives of wealthy expatriates.
Dressed in black and looking frail, Kissel listened as her attorney, Gerard McCoy, told the a panel of three judges that prosecutors presented evidence about his client's psychiatrist that was "prejudicial." McCoy said it was "not lawful and proper" for the prosecution to question Kissel in front of the jury about why she had declined to let her psychiatrist provide a psychiatric report during the trial.
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