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Provo • One by one, Heidy Truman's family members stood in front of a judge Monday and told of the hole left in their lives by the 25-year-old woman's 2012 shooting death.

They miss her smile. Her laugh. Her teasing. Her love of life and adventure.

They also asked the judge to give Heidy Truman's husband, 32-year-old Conrad Mark Truman, the maximum sentence for his recent convictions for first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony obstruction of justice.

But on Monday, 4th District Judge Samuel McVey did not hand down a sentence, as expected, because Conrad Truman's attorney filed a recent motion to arrest judgment in the case.

The judge agreed to delay the sentencing until Feb. 9. He will hear arguments on the defense's motion that day, immediately prior to the sentencing hearing.

Despite the delay, the judge said he wanted to hear from Heidy Truman's family on Monday..

Heidy Truman's mother, Janet Wagner, told the judge about cherished memories with her daughter and the shock she felt at learning she had died.

"She was so adventuresome," Wagner said. "She loved life. She was even happy, I thought, when she married Conrad Truman. She seemed very happy that day."

Four of Heidy Truman's siblings also spoke, and had harsh words for the man convicted of murdering her.

"I think that it's so unfair that the man who promised to love and cherish her put a gun to her head and killed her in the worst act of domestic violence," sister Autumn Wagner said.

Because the sentencing was postponed, Conrad Truman did not make a statement in court. He shook his head side-to-side several times as Heidy Truman's family accused him of murdering his wife.

Conrad Truman's sister, Colette Dahl, said her family believes her brother is not a murderer, and that Heidy Truman shot herself by accident.

"We're absolutely in support of Conrad," Dahl told the judge. "We 100 percent believe his innocence … We were stunned and shocked when the verdict came down, particularly after the prosecutors removed the motive completely of any financial gain."

Conrad Truman's attorney, Ron Yengich, earlier this month asked McVey to throw out the jury's October verdicts, in part, because the prosecution made an allegedly inappropriate reference to the movie, "Dumb and Dumber," during closing arguments.

Yengich argued in his written motion that two statements in prosecutor Craig Johnson's closing arguments were inappropriate: that Johnson had referred to defense counsel's theory as a "red herring," and that Johnson had compared the defense argument to "Dumb and Dumber." This constituted a "personal attack" on Yengich, he argued.

At trial, Johnson quoted a character in the movie who, when told there is a one in a million chance he would have a relationship with a woman, responds, "So you're telling me there's a chance."

Johnson used the movie quote in reference to Yengich's argument that there was a chance that Heidy Truman's death was an accident, though the medical examiner testified that accidental death was an extremely unlikely possibility.

Johnson also told the jury to "not let certain theories be a red herring to you, to distract you from certain evidence that is before you," pointing to what he deemed "minuscule" details that were emphasized by defense counsel at trial.

Johnson argued in a response motion that the sentencing should have gone forward Monday, and that McVey had already ruled on the issues at trial.

Yengich also asked McVey to arrest judgment in the case due to unspecified "potential jury misconduct and inappropriate contact of jurors by outside individuals during the course of the trial."

Truman faces a mandatory prison sentence of 15 years to life on the murder charge. The obstructing justice conviction is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Heidy Truman died on Sept. 30, 2012, after she was shot in the head in her Orem home. Conrad Truman, who testified in his own defense at trial, told jurors that the couple had been watching the television shows "Dexter" and "Homeland" while drinking Maker's Mark whiskey that evening when, at some point, he heard yelling outside.

Conrad Truman testified that he grabbed his dog and his gun and went to investigate. He did see a strange man on his walk, he testified, and told his wife about it when he returned home.

The couple continued talking about various topics, including whether they should get another dog, when Heidy Truman became irritated with him and decided to take a bath, the husband testified.

After about 20 minutes, Conrad Truman said he heard a pop and saw his wife, naked in the hallway, bleeding and choking.

The husband testified that somehow both he and his wife ended up on the floor. He tried to perform CPR and called 911.

When police arrived, they found blood everywhere — in the kitchen where Heidy Truman's naked body lay, in the front entry, the living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and on Truman himself.

When charges were filed, prosecutors had said the motive for the alleged murder was that Conrad Truman stood to inherit nearly $1 million in life insurance benefits upon his wife's death.

But when prosecutors presented evidence of the Trumans' life insurance policies at trial, they backed away from labeling it as a "motive" for the crime. Instead, Johnson argued that the shooting was the result of an alcohol-fueled disagreement or argument before Heidy Truman took her bath.

Yengich repeatedly told the jury that his client was innocent, and that Heidy Truman likely died by accident — that she shot herself when she slipped and fell while holding a handgun after taking a bath.