After a Manatee County jury found Ashley Benefield guilty of manslaughter, she was remanded into the custody of the Manatee ...
Benefield began to shake after she stepped away from the podium to re-create a pose where she held her gun out in front of her and said she asked Doug Benefield to stop as he got into a ...
The six-person jury decided at around 10:30 p.m. that the Lakewood Ranch mother and ex-ballerina did not act in self-defense when she shot and killed her husband, Doug Benefield, in September 2020.
Benefield, 33, sought bond while her appeal is pending after being sentenced in December to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting her husband, Doug Benefield, at her Lakewood Ranch home in ...