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A notorious Las Vegas 'Black Widow' had a conviction for murdering her millionaire husband overturned because her defense attorney did such a bad job in court.
Margaret Rudin's 2001 conviction for the 1994 murder of real estate developer husband Ron Rudin, 78, was tossed by a judge in Nevada Sunday.
The 78 year-old spent close to 20 years behind bars, and was freed in 2020, before the conviction was finally quashed at the weekend.
'I'm very, very grateful to God,' Rudin Told the Las Vegas Review Journal on Monday, 'I will be 79 years old at the end of this month so I am very, very grateful.'
Rudin's conviction was tossed out on Sunday over the botched and incompetent defense her former attorney, Michael Amador, provided during the trial in 2001.
Amador's antics during Rudin's trial became as notorious as his client. He negotiated media rights to the case-story and reportedly attempted to write a book about the case while defending Rudin, was accused of leaking information to tabloids, failed to interview or prepare witnesses before the trial, and delivered a woefully unprepared performance in court.
'Even putting the allegations of a serious conflict of interest by Amador to the side, Rudin clearly was denied effective assistance of counsel due to the extreme lack of trial preparation by Amador and his ensuing self-absorbed, ill-prepared, and incompetent representation at trial,' U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware wrote in the ruling to throw out Rudin's conviction.
Rudin was convicted in 2001 for the 1994 murder of her 78-year-old husband Ron Rudin, a real estate developer worth at least $8million at the time of his death. Ron was found shot in the head in the couple's bed, amidst preparations to divorce Margaret.
His corpse was locked in a trunk, burned and dumped in the Mohave Desert.
Margaret Rudin, 78, the notorious Las Vegas murder suspect dubbed 'the Black Widow,' had her murder conviction vacated Sunday after serving 19 years of a life sentence
Rudin was first indicted for the murder of her husband in 1997 after police interviewed a handyman who said she hired him to clean up the a bloodied mattress and carpet in Rudin's home.
Margaret's husband had gone missing in December of 1994 while he was making preparations to
