A Raleigh woman accused of murdering her boyfriend in February had her bail reduced to $50,000 on Wednesday after a judge found numerous issues with the case, court filings show.
Sandra Hunter, 66, was arrested March 1 and charged in the death of 72-year-old Arthur Upchurch, The News & Observer previously reported. Upchurch was found dead inside an apartment on Bassett Trail the morning of Feb. 28. Police have not released his cause of death.
Upchurch had a lengthy history of domestic violence, including previous convictions of assaulting Hunter, The N&O reported last month. He had been ordered not to contact Hunter as early as October 2023, but he pleaded guilty as recently as December to assaulting her again, court records show.
Superior Court Judge C. Winston Gilchrist approved a motion at a Wednesday hearing by Hunter’s defense attorney to modify her bail. Hunter was being held at the Wake County jail without bail, but Gilchrist ruled that she wasn’t a danger to the community for several reasons…