Emily Perkins testifies in Windsor Superior Court Tuesday, March 22, 2016, saying her husband, Michael Perkins, told her the positions of Scott Hill and Emma Jozefiak after they were shot in Bethel in November 2011. Perkins said she lied to police about her involvement in the shooting, previously giving several different accounts because she was trying to protect Michael. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Emily Perkins testifies in Windsor Superior Court Tuesday, March 22, 2016, saying her husband, Michael Perkins, told her the positions of Scott Hill and Emma Jozefiak after they were shot in Bethel in November 2011. Perkins said she lied to police about her involvement in the shooting, previously giving several different accounts because she was trying to protect Michael. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: James M. Patterson

White River Junction — Prosecutors and defense attorneys for Emily Perkins have reached a tentative agreement on a capped sentence, according to a motion filed in Windsor Superior Court earlier this month.

Exactly what the sentencing range is hasn’t been publicly divulged.

Perkins, who was originally supposed to be sentenced next month, now will be sentenced on March 1.

The extra time will allow her new third-party attorney a chance to get up to speed on the case.

The “lynchpin” to the capped sentence is that Perkins must waive her rights to appeal and post-trial conviction relief, Windsor County State’s Attorney David Cahill said on Tuesday. To make sure that process is fair, a third-party attorney has been retained.

That attorney is Mark Furlan, of Rutland. Perkins’ primary attorney is Devin McLaughlin, of Middlebury, Vt.

Perkins was found guilty by a jury in March of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree attempted murder in the death of Scott Hill and wounding of Emma Jozefiak at Hill’s Bethel trailer in 2011.

Perkins has been held without bail since the verdict was read. The mother of two faces a sentence of up to life in prison.