ALFRED – A hearing for a woman who wants to withdraw her guilty plea in connection with the 2017 stabbing death of her husband in Acton is now scheduled for June.
Kandee Weyland Collind, 48, had been scheduled to appear at York County Superior Court on her motion to withdraw the guilty plea on Thursday, but the hearing was postponed.
A motion to produce records connected with the case was granted by a judge on Tuesday afternoon.
Collind, of Acton, pleaded guilty in August 2018 to stabbing her ex-husband, Scott Weyland, to death in his driveway in February 2017 after she learned he had been awarded custody of their two young children.
The plea agreement that Collind now wants to a judge to allow her to withdraw calls for a capped sentence of 32 years. The minimum sentence for murder is 25 years.
Kandee Weyland Collind of Acton is now scheduled for a June 4 court appearance in connection with her motion to withdraw her guilty plea in the stabbing death of her husband Scott in February 2017. A hearing set for Thursday was postponed. TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune
In a brief hearing in December, York County Superior Court Justice Wayne Douglas urged Collins to think carefully about her decision.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Marchese told Justice Douglas that Collind should be aware that she goes to trial and convicted, the state would ask for “substantially” more prison time, “in the area of decades more,” said Marchese at the December hearing.
Marchese also said premeditation and children being present during the commission of the crime are two factors that could lead the prosecution to ask for a life sentence. “I’m not suggesting we’d 100 percent ask for a life sentence, but it would be in the mix,” she said.
Marchese said the offer of a capped 32 year sentence was made so the couple’s children would not have to testify at a trial.
Collind told York County Sheriff’s Office deputies that on Feb. 22, 2017, the couple’s children were in the car with her when she pulled into her ex-husband’s driveway and crashed into a pick-up truck parked there and that she and Scott Weyland had a confrontation
One of the children called 911 at 12:55 p.m. that day, according to a court affidavit, and said Collind had stabbed Weyland in the chest.
When York County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at the Acton home where Scott Weyland had been living with his mother, he found Collind administering CPR to her former husband outside on the ground. She was crying hysterically, and allegedly told deputies she had stabbed him in the chest, and that he had pulled out a knife as well.
An autopsy revealed Weyland died of a stab wound to the chest, with penetration of the heart.
In October, Collind allegedly told her attorney, Molly Butler Bailey, that she wanted to withdraw her plea, that she hadn’t taken her psychological medication on the day she entered the guilty plea and that there were some elements of the murder charge she didn’t understand.
The hearing was originally scheduled for January and then scheduled for March 13. It is now set for 1 p.m. on June 4.
Collind remains in custody at York County Jail.
— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 780-9016 or twells@journaltribune.com.
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