OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — The defense team of Michael Woodbury, a man who killed three people in Conway, before pleading guilty to murdering a fellow inmate in Florida is trying to have Woodbury's Florida conviction overturned due to the trial court's handling of Woodbury's mental illness.Â
It was July 2, 2007, when Woodbury, then 31, walked into the Army Barracks store at 347 White Mountain Highway in Conway and shot store manager James Walker, 34, and two customers from Massachusetts, William Jones, 25, and Gary Jones, 23, who had come to the area to go camping.
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