(AP) -- A court says there was nothing wrong with a Detroit-area jury trying to re-enact the final moments of a woman's life before it declared her husband guilty of murder. Michael Fletcher failed to persuade an appeals court Friday that the jury's private experiment deprived him of his constitutional rights. Fletcher is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his wife, Leann, in Oakland County in 1999.

Police said he killed her because a pregnancy would have interfered with his affair with a judge. Jurors told an ABC News program they tried to re-create Fletcher's claim that his wife died of a self-inflicted gunshot. They watched where the gun fell and concluded the death was not an accident.

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