by KYW's Brad Segall
A Jenkintown, Pa. woman who asked her boyfriend to kill her father last year has been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Montgomery County judge, while the man who pulled the trigger was convicted of third-degree murder.
Christina Rubin’s attorney argued during a weeklong degree-of-guilt hearing that his 23-year-old client had been abused physically and psychologically by her father, Marc Rubin, for more than a decade (see previous stories).
The attorney told the court that when she felt she couldn’t take it anymore, she asked Jeffrey Leinheiser, her 20-year-old boyfriend, to shoot her father while he was sleeping.
Rubin’s attorney, Martin Mullaney, says she’s thrilled with the judge’s ruling:
“I think she is absolutely overwhelmed with emotion -- finally it’s the end of the road, it’s the end of the battering. She can now rest at peace and move on with her life, finally.”
During the hearing, Mullaney played a tape made by her father in which in the victim’s own voice you can hear him abusing his daughter.
Leinheiser’s attorney, Steven Fairlie, says his client never met Marc Rubin but knew about the abuse and wanted to help his girlfriend:
"The court saw that Marc Rubin was in fact a very bad person and that Jeff Leinheiser relieved her from a very difficult situation.”
After the murder, they tried to cut up the body and finally dumped the corpse near the Jersey shore. Sentencing is scheduled for February.
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