A Mississippi businessman convicted of hiring hit men to kill his daughter-in-law is challenging the 2011 jury verdict in a related civil suit that ordered him to pay the woman’s family $2.6 million.

The convicted man’s lawyer, William “Gere” Quinn III, argued before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the trial court erred in allowing the suit to go to a jury because the two-year statute of limitations for the wrongful death and pain and suffering claims had expired.

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