North Carolina woman seeks retrial in South Carolina killing

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — An attorney for a North Carolina woman is asking for a new trial or sentencing after she was convicted of killing her husband on a South Carolina beach.

A lawyer for Kimberly Renee Poole, 40, formerly of Mocksville, is asking for post-conviction relief in Horry County, South Carolina, The Winston-Salem Journal reported.

Poole was convicted in 1999 of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the 1998 shooting death of Brent Poole, 24, at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Prosecutors say she was having an affair with John Boyd Frazier Jr., 47, formerly of Winston-Salem, and asked him to kill her husband. Frazier is serving a 30-year-sentence for murder, armed robbery and conspiracy after he was convicted in 2005.

Poole is serving a life sentence at Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Attorney Charles Grose says Poole’s previous lawyers did a poor job defending her, saying they devoted little time to her case before the trial.

Prosecutors said Poole was walking on the beach with her husband when he was shot twice in the head. She told police a robber had killed her husband.

Robert Kittle, a spokesman for the South Carolina Attorney General’s office would not talk about Poole’s request. But Kittle said the office will respond to the latest appeal within 90 days.

Both the South Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider Poole’s earlier appeal.

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This story corrects the spelling of the attorney’s first name in last paragraph to Charles, rather than Charleston.

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Information from: Winston-Salem Journal, http://www.journalnow.com

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