A Mays Landing woman who admitted to killing her husband after he threatened her with a gun during an assault was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday.
Marylue Wigglesworth, 53, pleaded guilty in June to one count of manslaughter in the Christmas 2022 killing of her husband.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Marylue Wigglesworth said her husband had physically assaulted her and threatened her with a gun he kept in their bedroom. After the incident, she used that same gun to fatally shoot him.
Wigglesworth's attorneys claimed from the beginning that she was a victim of domestic violence.
She “experienced significant bruising and other injuries,” attorneys Jonathan Diego and Melissa Rosenblum wrote in a statement released to BreakingAC at that time. “The facts of that heart-rending evening will unfold in a court of law, not the court of public opinion."
That night was not the first time her husband abused her, they said at the time.
Officers investigating the homicide documented significant bruising throughout the defendant’s body following the homicide, consistent with being the victim of an assault, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
Wigglesworth remains in the Atlantic County Justice Facility pending her transfer to state prison. She must serve at least 85 percent, or about five years and one month, of her sentence. She has served nearly one year and eight months.
