PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The attorney for a woman convicted of murdering her 10-year-old daughter says jurors weren’t properly instructed before they began deliberations during the trial.

Sharon Kennedy’s attorney told justices Tuesday that jurors should have received guidance on the legal concept of “duress” she was experiencing because of domestic abuse.

The attorney also argued that Kennedy’s confession should have been suppressed and that the judge erred in imposing the 48-year prison sentence.

The 2018 death of Marissa Kennedy in Stockton Springs was one of two deaths that exposed gaps in Maine’s child welfare system and led to widespread reforms in the way the state seeks to protect vulnerable children.