Now that Gilley has been granted a new day in court, prosecutors want to retry her for second-degree murder, which carries a life sentence without parole.
New trial set in fatal Houma stabbing
A new trial has been scheduled for a Houma woman who is charged with stabbing another woman to death in an argument over a man in 2017.
A Terrebonne Parish jury voted 11-1 in 2019 to convict Miranda Cheyenne Gilley, 25, of manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Jessica McGehee.
State District Judge George Larke Jr. sentenced her to 23 years in prison.
Gilley then took her case to the Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeal in Baton Rouge, which overturned the conviction July 17.
Though Gilley argued there wasn’t enough evidence to warrant a conviction, the appeals court ultimately overturned her conviction because of the split-jury verdict.