A well-connected Atlanta attorney convicted of murder in the shooting of his business executive wife has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
The 75-year-old attorney, Claud “Tex” McIver, was sentenced Wednesday on felony murder and three other counts in the September 2016 death of 64-year-old Diane McIver, president of U.S. Enterprises Inc.
While prosecutors argued McIver had a financial motive to kill his wife, his attorneys maintain the shooting was an accident. McIver’s attorney Bruce Harvey has said the recommended sentence would be “the end of his life” without relief on appeal, because he wouldn’t be eligible for parole for 30 years.
