This week, Ashley Benefield’s defense team has appealed her sentence in Manatee County court. After a contentious sentencing ...

A day after the judge handed down a 20 year prison sentence to his client, Ashley Benefield’s defense attorney reflected on ...

Women like Ashley Benefield are regularly sent to prison by male jurists who are not educated about – or are willfully blind ...

In our opinion, the State failed to prove that Ms. Benefield was not acting in self-defense,” her attorney said.

Ashley Benefield was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for manslaughter after judge denied her motions for a new trial ...

Ashley Benefield at a hearing after being accused of killing her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, and is attempting to have ...

The stormy relationship between Doug and Ashley Benefield, the star-crossed couple at the heart of the notorious "Black Swan" murder case, began and ended with a .45 caliber gun, according to what ...

Ashley Benefield, dubbed the "Black Swan," took the stand in her own defense during her trial for the murder of her estranged ...

Ashley Benefield is being held at the Manatee County Jail until a January bond hearing. Her defense is filing an appeal of ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield sentenced to 20 years for fatal shooting of her husband, Doug Benefield, during a custody ...

And the cost was the life of Doug Benefield. And that is murder. Defense lawyer Neil Taylor made his argument that Ashley shot Doug in self-defense after he physically assaulted her. NEIL TAYLOR ...