KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – The Blount County woman who gunned down her live-in boyfriend in June 2005 will begin serving her sentence on Monday.

April Jennifer Warren, 38 pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on April 8th, 2008. According to police, she killed Charles Russell, 32 with a single shotgun blast to his head following an argument in their home on June 13th, 2005. Court records indicated she was performing CPR on Russell when police arrived on the scene.

Warren was sentenced to 10 years in prison on May 28th, 2008, but later appealed when it came out that Judge Mike Meares had contacted the family of the victim about the verdict. After sentencing Warren, Judge Meares apparently told Russell’s family that he gave her the maximum penalty with them in mind and asked that they support him in his upcoming election.

Meares lost his circuit court reelection in August 2008 to Judge David R. Duggan. A special hearing in October 2008 determined he had violated part of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges by contacting the Russell family.

Blount County officials told Volunteer TV News on Thursday that she had dropped her appeal earlier in the day and would begin serving her sentence on November 2nd. They confirmed she would only have to serve 35 percent of the 10 year prison sentence.