FREEHOLD, N.J. - A judge has imposed a 95-year prison sentence on a woman accused of arranging to have her girlfriend shot and later strangling her and burying her in the backyard of a New Jersey home.Monmouth County Superior Court Judge David Bauman sentenced 38-year-old Jennifer Sweeney on Friday.Authorities said 41-year-old Tyrita Julius was wounded in a shooting in November 2015.
She was reported missing a few months later and was found buried in a Long Branch yard in August 2016.Sweeney was convicted in September of murder, attempted murder and other counts.AdvertisementHer attorney says she "loved the victim very much and maintains her innocence.".