LOS ANGELES, Aug 28: A professional tennis referee accused of beating her 80-year-old husband to death has had two knee replacements and a shoulder replacement and couldn’t have carried out the killing, her lawyer wrote in a court filing.

Lois Ann Goodman also suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, hearing loss and constant spinal pain that’s controlled by an electronic device implanted in her spine and is awaiting another shoulder replacement, attorney Alison Triessl said in the filing late on Monday.

“It is physically impossible for her to have done this,” Triessl said in an interview.

Triessl asked the judge to reduce Goodman’s $1 million bail to $100,000 or release her on electronic monitoring.

“Mrs Goodman is not a danger to any person or the community,” Triessl wrote in the motion.—AP