A defense attorney stood in front of a jury Friday, held up a picture of a scorpion and slapped it over a photo of Mechele Linehan, saying the one-time stripper is the real killer who gunned down Kent Leppink more than 10 years ago.
The Alaska Court of Appeals on Friday overturned the murder conviction of former Olympia resident Mechele Linehan, leaving it to state prosecutors to decide whether to retry the former Alaska stripper.