Lawyer convicted of murder-for-hire scheme gives up law license

August 30, 2007 at 4:20p.m.

COLUMBUS — A former Warren attorney, convicted in a scheme to kill her husband, has formally resigned her Ohio law license.

Maridee Lynn Costanzo’s voluntary resignation was among the case announcements and administrative actions announced Thursday by the Ohio Supreme Court.

The formal affidavit in which she agreed to cease practicing law was filed in Tarrant County, Texas. The resignation is “unconditional, final an irrevocable,”according to documents.

Costanzo, 49, is incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, with a scheduled release date of Aug. 16, 2012, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She was sentenced to eight years in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release.

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