BANGOR (AP) — A Maine mother who’s serving a 37-year sentence for killing her 2½-year-old daughter and leaving her body in a car is appealing to Maine’s highest court.
Twenty-six-year-old Leanna Norris of Auburn admitted to investigators that she gave her daughter, Loh Melody Grenda, a high dose of allergy medicine to help her sleep, then suffocated her.
The child’s body was found in June 2013 in a car in Stetson.
Her lawyer argued before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Thursday morning that Norris was suffering from a major mental illness. The judge who presided over her trial rejected her insanity defense and found her guilty.
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