Shooting convictions, sentences upheld  Posted Monday, Apr. 22,
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us  In a decision handed down recently, an appeals court upheld
three aggravated assault convictions and sentences of 60, 20 and
10 years in prison assessed by a Parker County jury in the
June,2011 trial of a man accused of ramming a vehicle into a car
with his estranged wife and her cousin inside and then shooting
the wife in both legs.  David Daniel Duff, 43, of Wise County,
had been served with divorce papers the morning of the shooting
and immediately went to where he believed his wife was living,
according to trial testimony. After using his vehicle to ram the
vehicle the women were driving into a pipe fence, Duff got out
of his vehicle, went to where his wife was getting out and shot
her in both legs with a 10mm handgun.  He then held the gun to
the wife’s head as a brief standoff took place. The wreck,
shooting and standoff, during which the victim begged for her
life, were a