SANDPOINT — The Idaho Court of Appeals is affirming the sentence imposed against a Post Falls man who stabbed his estranged wife at her home near Priest Lake in 2013.

James Laverne “Vern” Carlton was accused of slipping into the woman’s home and attacking her with a knife as she sat on a couch reading a book. The woman was stabbed once in the chest and a tendon in her hand was severed.

The woman did not hear Carlton enter the home because she is deaf.

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