CLEVELAND -- A doctor found guilty of aggravated murder in his wife's death from cyanide poisoning could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced.
Forty-one-year-old Yazeed Essa was convicted last week of lacing his wife's calcium supplement with cyanide in 2005. He will be sentenced Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Rosemarie Essa collapsed while driving and crashed her car into another vehicle near the couple's home.
Essa faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years.
During weeks of testimony, prosecutors claimed the former emergency room doctor at an Akron hospital killed his wife so he could be with his mistress.
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