An Orange County woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a Barre man on Thursday.

The murder trial against Seth Brunell ended in a surprise plea deal after a sheriff’s deputy had an unsanctioned conversation with the defendant. It was not the first mistake in the case.

Doctors concluded that Perry was “floridly psychotic with paranoid delusions and hallucinations” when he shot his daughter at point-blank range with a shotgun four years ago, according to court ...