 Upon her arrest on November 22 , 1995 , Green was charged with two counts of first @-@ degree murder , two counts of attempted first @-@ degree murder , and one count of aggravated arson . She was held on $ 3 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 bail — the highest ever required at that point in time by Johnson County , Kansas — and maintained her innocence throughout pre @-@ trial motions and a show cause hearing . However , when the defense 's own investigators verified the strength of forensic evidence against Green , she agreed to an Alford plea to all charges . On May 30 , 1996 , she was sentenced to two concurrent forty @-@ year prison sentences . Green has petitioned for a new trial twice since her conviction . Her first request , which she eventually withdrew , was based on a claim of having been rendered incompetent for plea bargaining by the psychiatric medications she was taking at the time of her hearings ; her second , which was denied by a judge , claimed that the evidence used to convict her of arson had been rendered obsolete by scientific advances . 
