A Kemmerer babysitter who beat to death a 5-year-old girl in 2022 does not get a new trial because she failed to prove that a judge damaged her case by having a key hearing while she was in the hospital, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

A jury convicted Cheri Marler on May 10, 2024, of first-degree murder and child abuse in the beating death of 5-year-old Annabelle Noles, who’d been in Marler’s care for weeks in late 2022.

Lincoln County District Court Judge Joseph Bluemel that June sentenced Marler to life in prison without parole.

The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Marler’s conviction as lawful after Marler claimed Bluemel violated her rights by holding a key hearing without her while she was hospitalized during the case.

The court also ruled th

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