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Teen acquitted in ax slaying of grandparents

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JONESBORO - A Clayton County jury has acquitted a teenager of murder in the robbery and ax killings of her grandparents but convicted her on a lesser charge of theft. <br> <br> Eighteen-year-old Deandrea Carter was acquitted Thursday on nine felony counts involving the death of her grandmother, Fannie Mae Tubner. The jury could not decide on five other felony counts in the death of her grandfather, Johnny Tubner. <br> <br> Carter was accused of conspiring with her then-boyfriend, Richard Sealey, and two other accomplices to rob and kill the couple at their Ellenwood home in January 2000. <br> <br> Thirty-eight-year-old Sealey was sentenced to death in August for the killings. <br> <br> Carter will be sentenced February 14. She could get up to ten years in prison.
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