Woman sentenced to more than a decade in prison for murder conviction
Alexis Loretta Jane Poole (Hennepin County Jail)
A woman convicted of second-degree murder for killing her husband more than a year ago will be spending multiple years in prison.
Hennepin County court documents show 24-year-old Alexis Loretta Jane Poole was sentenced by Judge Carolina Lamas on Monday to spend 150 months (12.5 years) in prison after pleading guilty to the charge in March. Poole received 497 days of credit for time already served behind bars.
As part of an agreement with prosecutors, one charge of second-degree manslaughter was dismissed.
As previously reported, St. Louis Park police responded to a medical call during the early afternoon hours of Jan. 3, 2023, on the 7300 block of Cedar Lake Road. There, they found 22-year-old Logan Gregory Barham suffering a stab wound. He was brought to the hospital where he later died.
Poole initially claimed that her husband, Barham, was cooking when his knee gave out and he accidentally stabbed himself. However, she later said they were fighting and, when her husband picked her up to move her so he could leave the apartment, she stabbed him.
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The criminal complaint also notes that officers had responded to the apartment in the past, including once in 2020 where Poole allegedly was holding knives and making threatening statements.
The medical examiner said the stab wound was over six inches deep and penetrated Barham’s chest wall, lung and heart.
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