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Whiteish Woman Denies Murder Charge

Facts

FIGURES
AnnMari Helt Newton

remains released on
Numbers in the news
$25,000 bond

4th
By MOLLY PRIDDY of the Beacon

2013’s ranking among AnnMari Helt Newton, the Whiteish
woman accused of stabbing her husband
the hottest years on to death, pleaded not guilty last week to
record, according to the murder.

National Oceanic and Newton, 39, appeared in Flathead
Atmospheric Administra- County District Court for her second ar-
tion. The average world raignment hearing in this case; the irst
came in December when she pleaded not
temperature was 58.12 guilty to an assault with a weapon charge,
degrees.
which prosecutors increased to mitigated
deliberate homicide when her husband,
Chad Newton, 37, died as a result of his in-

0.72%
juries. There is also an alternate charge of
negligent homicide.
Chad Newton went to the intensive
America’s population
care unit on Nov. 25 after his wife alleged-
growth between July ly stabbed him in the left side of his chest
during an argument. His family, which
2012 and July 2013, the was granted the right to make end-of-life
lowest since the Great AnnMari Helt Newton appears for an arraignment hearing in Flathead County Justice Court on Jan. 23.
decisions for him, removed him from life GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
Depression, according to support at the end of December.
the Brookings Instittute.
Prior to his death, AnnMari Newton’s said.
ing her husband in a combative stance.
bond had been decreased to $25,000, Lympus said he would take the matter
He also reported hearing Chad New-
which was posted and she was subse- under advisement, but told Newton that ton yelling, “If you try to stab me with that
quently freed on certain conditions, in- if she happens to disappear in the mean- knife I will kill you.”
317.3 million
cluding wearing a GPS tracker.
time, “the consequences will be severe.”
Jorgensen told investigators that he
At the Jan. 23 hearing, deputy county She was released under the same heard a scream while his back was to the
Population in the U.S. as
attorney Travis Ahner argued that Judge terms she’s been under since posting the couple and turned around to see Chad
of Jan. 1, 2014, accord- Ted O. Lympus should increase AnnMari $25,000 bond.
Newton lying face down on the loor,
ing to the U.S. Census Newton’s bond to $100,000, given the in- According to court documents, police bleeding.
creased severity of the murder charge. oicers responded to the Newton resi- AnnMari Newton allegedly told detec-
Bureau.
Ahner also said Newton is a light risk.
dence on O’Brien Avenue in Whiteish on tives that she and her husband had been
However, Newton’s attorney, Sean Nov. 25 after receiving a report that a man in the kitchen when they started arguing,
Hinchey, said the assumption that his cli- had been stabbed.
and that she was holding a knife, which
$6 million
ent is a light is “totally disingenuous,” be- Oicers found Chad Newton in the she thrust toward him and stabbed him.

cause she has already turned in her Swed- kitchen, lying on the loor, unresponsive She allegedly said she did not mean to
Budget shortfall faced by ish passport as a condition of release and is and bleeding.
stab him, and that it was an accident; she
constantly monitored by her GPS tracker.
A detective spoke with a man who had had been standing with her back to him,
the University of Mon- Hinchey also said that while Newton been staying with the Newtons, identi- and that she had made a stabbing motion
tana for the rest of the may be charged with mitigated deliberate ied as Eirik Jorgensen, who stated that with the knife to warn her husband to
homicide now, it was clear when her bond the couple had been “arguing heavily” in back of, without realizing how close he
2014 iscal year, largely was originally reduced that her husband the days before the incident, and both had had been standing to her.
due to falling enrollment.
wasn’t going to live. Regardless, Newton been “drinking more and more.”
The couple’s children were home at the
showed up to court when she has received The Nov. 25 ight began early in the time of the ight, according to investiga-
a summons, he said.
day, Jorgensen stated, and at one point he tors, and were unharmed and placed with
“The name of the charge has changed, went into the kitchen and allegedly saw family friends.
but that’s all that’s changed,” Hinchey
AnnMari Newton holding a knife and fac-
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