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Nicole Diar death row photo.
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Nicole Diar murdered her 4-year-old son and
then started a fire in her house to conceal
the crime.
Diar herself
was severely burned in a fire when she was 4 years old.
(David I. Andersen/Plain Dealer file)
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Nicole Diar
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Nicole Diar during a break in her 2005 trial. Her sentence was
overturned
by the state Supreme Court in December 2008.
(CT file
photo)
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Nicole Diar, convicted in 2005 for the 2003 murder of her son,
Jacob, leaves a courtroom in
the Lorain County Justice Center on
Thursday. Diar will spend life in prison without the
possibility of
parole after a deal was approved that allowed her to avoid a
retrial.
(CT photo by Bruce Bishop)
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Nicole Diar listens to visiting Common Pleas Judge Judith Cross
during the hearing concerning her
re-sentencing for the 2003 murder of her son, 4-year-old Jacob Diar,
on Thursday, June 3, 2010
at the Lorain County Justice Center in Elyria, Ohio.
(Morning Journal/Nate
Parson)
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Nicole Diar's parents Marilyn Diar, left and Edward Diar talk
with defense attourney Grey Meyers, right,
as the three judge panel
deliberates during the re-sentencing of Nicole Diar for the 2003
aggravated
murder of her son, 4-year-old Jacob Diar
at the Lorain County Justice Center in Elyria.
(Morning Journal/Nate
Parson)
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Nicole Diar
The victim
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Jacob Diar, 4.