GALVESTON, Texas — A new trial is sought for the mother of a toddler dubbed "Baby Grace" after her unidentified body turned up in Galveston Bay.
An attorney for 21-year-old Kimberly Dawn Trenor says he mailed her capital murder appeal Monday to an appeals court in Houston.
Greg Russell told the Galveston County Daily News that he is raising mental health and evidence issues.
Trenor in February was convicted in the 2007 death of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers, whose battered body had been found in a container in Galveston Bay.
Relatives in Mentor, Ohio, identified the girl from media reports.
Trenor's husband and Riley's stepfather, 26-year-old Royce Clyde Zeigler II, was convicted Friday of capital murder. He and his wife received life prison terms. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
