A 75-year-old West Bloomfield woman convicted of killing her teen grandson is asking for just a year in custody for murder, on top of a mandatory two-year prison sentence for using a gun.

Sandra Layne’s attorney filed the request this week ahead of her sentencing April 18. Jerome Sabbota told a judge that the public doesn’t need to be protected from Layne, nor does the prison system need to rehabilitate her.

“Sandra Layne is in her own prison. … There is nothing that anybody can do to turn the clock back to the awful events that occurred on May 18, 2012,” Sabbota wrote. “There are no winners or losers in a case such as this.”

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Pontiac —A 75-year-old West Bloomfield Township woman on trial for the murder of her 17-year-old grandson was found guilty of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony by an Oakland County Circuit Court jury.

The verdict against Sandra Layne came after eight hours of deliberations over two days.

She was tried on an open murder charge in the May18 death of Jonathan Hoffman, who she shot six times during an argument in her West Bloomfield condominium.

During a two-week trial, the jury heard from more than two dozen witnesses, including Layne who said she acted out of desperation and self-defense.

Jurors listened to evidence experts and heard dramatic 911 phone recordings in which Hoffman told a dispatcher that his grandmother shot him and begged for help.

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For eight days, jurors in the Sandra Layne trial have listened to testimony regarding the shooting death of Layne’s grandson, Jonathan Hoffman.

Every blood stain has been analyzed. Autopsy photos as well as three autopsy reports have been pored over. Jurors even spent two days listening to Layne herself describe the events that led up to Hoffman’s death.

After closing arguments Monday morning, it will all be in the jury’s hands.

Layne is charged with open murder, as well as possession of a firearm in commission of a felony, in the May 18 shooting death of Hoffman inside their West Bloomfield Township condominium.

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Pontiac — Jurors in the trial of a 75-year-old West Bloomfield Township woman charged with fatally shooting her 17-year-old grandson heard a toxicologist testify Monday the teen had the presence of Spice or K2, a synthetic drug, in his urine but was likely not under the influence and could not say with any certainty when he ingested the substance.

Sandra Layne is charged with open murder in the May 18 shooting of Jonathan Hoffman. Her attorney claimed she was in fear of Hoffman because of his frequent violent outbursts and escalating drug use.

Dr. Gary Kunsman, Oakland Countys chief forensic toxicologist, testified Hoffmans blood and urine samples were sent to an outside lab to test for K2 because Hoffman had an alleged history of abusing the substance, legally sold as a room deodorizer but smoked to provide a marijuana-type high.

“Most synthetic drugs have active proponents similar to marijuana,” said Kunsman. “An individual who smoked in the evening and the following day, there would be no active drugs in the blood but most likely in the urine.”

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Pontiac — Jurors viewed a gory, 17-minute silent video Thursday of the blood-spattered condominium where investigators say a 75-year-old West Bloomfield Township woman fatally shot her teenage grandson several times last May.

Sandra Layne is charged with open murder in the May death of Jonathan Hoffman, 17, during an argument at her condominium in a gated community on Brookview Lane. Hoffman had been staying with his grandparents to complete his senior year at Farmington Central High. His parents were in the process of divorce and moved to Arizona.

The video, filmed by township police officer David St. Germaine the day of the shooting, followed a path of bloody footprints on hardwood floors and beige carpeting throughout the condo, up and down stairs and finally to a loft area where the furniture and walls and bed sheets were smeared with blood .Hoffman is believed to have finally collapsed in the loft area during a 911 emergency call to police in which he begged for help.

Layne — who previously ignored slide projections of evidence presented by Assistant Chief Prosecutor Paul Walton — sat transfixed by the video, her head rocking side to side as the camera slowly panned throughout the death scene. The hand-held camera stopped at bullet holes, blood stains, live ammo and shell casings, marked by placards.

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Pontiac — The trial of a 75-year-old West Bloomfield Township woman charged in the slaying of her teenage grandson opened Tuesday with dramatic recounting of his final minutes and the terror to which he allegedly subjected his grandmother for months.

But there was no disputing Sandra Layne, a retired school teacher charged with open murder in the May 2012 slaying of Jonathan Hoffman, 17, fired the fatal shots. Defense attorney Jerome Sabbota told jurors they will hear Layne testify what led to the shooting.

“She is no murderer … he was a troubled teen and she was in fear for her life,” said Sabbota, who ticked off events that transformed his client into an accused killer.

“She was afraid because she had seen him tied up in the hospital,” said Sabbota of one drug arrest and added Jonathan had also previously attacked his mother, Layne’s daughter, during an argument police had to break up.

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