Tuesday, April 4th 2017, 12:33 pm
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of a man convicted of killing a Northeastern State University chemistry professor.
The court on Tuesday rejected a dozen appeals from 37-year-old Joshua Schneider, including lack of evidence, improper evidence, prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel.
Schneider was convicted in Cherokee County in 2015 of killing 38-year-old Tiffany Maher in May 2013 after meeting her on an online dating website. Schneider was also convicted of arson and larceny in the case.
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Maher's partially burned body was found in bed in her home in Tahlequah. A specific cause of death could not be determined, but an autopsy report said the death was consistent with strangulation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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