BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A Boulder woman has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her husband.
Prosecutors added a "crime of violence" aspect to the charge filed Wednesday against 36-year-old Traci Housman in the Aug. 2 death of 41-year-old John Housman. Adding crime of violence doubles the maximum sentence to 32 years in prison, if convicted.
Police say the couple had been married about a year and had been drinking at the time. Housman told police that she stabbed John Housman afte he assaulted her, pushing her head into a wall several times and into a glass framed picture that broke.
Housman's mother, Donna Lundstrom, said her daughter is innocent.
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