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An Arizona woman accused of trying to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee has been sentenced to three years probation.
Melody Felicano Johnson was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder and pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser charge of adding a poison or noxious substance to food or drink in April.
Johnson could have received a maximum of two years in prison for each charge.
Her lawyer asked for the sentence to be served, saying Johnson had already been in custody for nearly a year because of her inability to post $US250,000 ($A390,000) bail.
Her sentence also included mental health treatment.
Judge Javier Chon-Lopez noted that even the victim, her estranged husband Robbie Johnson, told the court he did not want Johnson to end up in prison.
The defendant’s husband told investigators he “believes she was trying to kill him to get death benefits,” according to a crime report obtained last year by CNN affiliate KVOA.
Robbie Johnson said he first noticed an off-taste in his coffee in March 2023 while an airman stationed in Germany, the document said.
The Johnsons still lived together with their child, but were in the process of divorcing. Robbie and Melody Johnson’s divorce is not yet final, her lawyer said.
Robbie Johnson told detectives he used pool test strips to determine his coffee pot “showed high levels of chlorine” and set up hidden cameras that reportedly caught Melody Johnson pouring bleach into a container and pour the contents of that container into the coffee maker, investigators said.
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