An attorney for a woman convicted of murder in the shooting death of Potosi native Rhoni Reuter in 2007 is asking for a new trial or an evidentiary hearing because he contends the woman falsely confessed out of fear that police would charge her teenage son in the slaying. Reuter, who was pregnant, was the girlfriend of ex-Chicago Bears player Shaun Gayle. Reports say that attorney Jed Stone filed a petition this week in Lake County that contends there is also other evidence that helps prove Marni Yang didn’t shoot Rhoni Reuter. Yang was convicted after a trial in which prosecutors argued that she killed the woman she perceived as a rival for Shaun Gayle’s affections. They played for jurors a taped conversation in which Yang told a friend she shot Reuter.Yang is serving two life sentences in state prison.
