A Manhattan judge has ordered New York State to release Laurie Kellogg, a woman serving 25 years to life for the murder of her husband in Seneca County in 1991. 
 
 At the time, her case made national headlines and was made into a movie. 
 
 In a ruling that quoted Bob Dylan lyrics and movie dialogue from "Chicago" and "City Slickers," State Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron Thursday gave the state 30 days to release Kellogg from Taconic Correctional Facility. 
 
 Kellogg, 52, was convicted 25 years ago of murdering her husband, Bruce Kellogg, in his Seneca County cottage. 
 
 Prosecutors said she drove four teenagers from Pennsylvania to Bruce Kellogg's summer cottage in the town of Romulus on June 9, 1991. There one of the teens, Denver McDowell, then 19, shot Bruce Kellogg in the head while he slept on the couch. 
 
 Laurie Kellogg's defense said she was a battered wife, which was disputed by her husband's siblings. 
 
 She was convicted in 1992 of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal use of a firearm and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. A Seneca County judge sentenced her to 25 years to life for the second degree murder. 
 
 Her story was told in the movie "Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg" starring Jennie Garth as Laurie and Gregory Harrison as Bruce Kellogg. The 1994 movie was distributed by ABC. 
 
 In 2009, Laurie Kellogg sought clemency from then Gov. David Paterson. At the time, Bruce Kellogg's family wrote letters and spoke out against releasing Laurie Kellogg. The governor did not give her clemency, 
 
 At her parole board hearing in February 2016, Laurie Kellogg said that she wished she could "turn back time and make different decisions." 
 
 She added, "I can tell you that if I can go back and do any of what I know now, I know that I would not have listened to other people. I would not have acted impulsively." 
 
 Laurie Kellogg was denied parole in Feburary 2016. She took her case to the state's Appeals Unit which also refused to release her because of her "failure to accept responsibility and lack of remorse." 
 
 Kellogg then took her case to court. 
 
 The parole board did not dispute that she was a model inmate, the judge wrote 
 
 After all the time she's spent in prison, her statements to the parole board may be all of the remorse Laurie Kellogg can express, Engoron said in his decision. 
 
 "Maybe she is not one to ululate or 'beat her breasts'," Engoron wrote. "She has 'paid her debt to society' and now just wants freedom. After all these years of exemplary conduct, she is entitled to that freedom, as a matter of law and as a matter of decency and humanity." 
 
 The parole board is reviewing the ruling, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said in an email Thursday afternoon. 
 
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 Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron wrote that Laurie Kellogg, 52, had been a model prisoner. His ruling overturns the Parole Board's decision. 
 
 "After all these years of exemplary conduct, she is entitled to that freedom, as a matter of law and as a matter of decency and humanity," Engoron wrote. 
 
 Kellogg had become involved with her future husband, Bruce Kellogg, when she was just 16 and he was 33. 
 
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 On June 9, 1991, she drove her teenage lover, Denver McDowell, to the cabin where Bruce was sleeping. McDowell pulled the trigger and shot Kellogg's husband dead — but jurors convicted her of murder, anyway. 
 
 The slaying became the subject of a 1994 made-for-TV movie, "Lies of the Heart." 
 
 In December, Kellogg sued the parole board, alleging that its decision to deny her freedom was "bordering on impropriety." 
 
 Laurie Kellogg will be free within 30 days, barring an appeal. (chinaface via iStock) 
 
 The judge agreed, writing that she should be released "purely as a matter of common sense." Engoron also emphasized that Kellogg was sentenced to 25 years to life. 
 
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 "The '25 years' in '25-years-to-life' must mean something," he wrote. "If Laurie Kellogg, a prisoner as pristine and perfect as a prisoner can be…is not released now, the 25 years becomes meaningless." 
 
 He also scoffed at the parole board's perception of Kellogg's lack of remorse. 
 
 "After all these years, that may be the most remorse she can express. Maybe she is not one to ululate or 'beat her breasts,'" Engoron wrote. 
 
 She will be free within 30 days, barring an appeal. The State Department of Correction did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
– In the 26 years she has been in prison for her role in the 1991 murder of her husband, Laurie Kellogg has been "as pristine and perfect as a prisoner can be," a New York judge said Thursday, ordering the release of the woman whose case became the made-for-TV movie Lies of the Heart in 1994. Kellogg, 52, was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life after husband Bruce Kellogg was shot dead by her 19-year-old lover, who was one of a group of teenagers she drove to the cabin where he was sleeping, the New York Daily News reports. She sued for release after the parole board and the appeals board refused to release her in 2016, citing a "lack of remorse." Kellogg told investigators that she had been beaten by the husband she married when she was 16 and he was 33. State Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron cited Bob Dylan lyrics and dialogue from the movies Chicago and City Slickers in his ruling, which overturns the parole board's decision, Syracuse.com reports. "Maybe she is not one to ululate or 'beat her breasts,'" the judge wrote. "She has 'paid her debt to society' and now just wants freedom. After all these years of exemplary conduct, she is entitled to that freedom, as a matter of law and as a matter of decency and humanity." Kellogg will be free within 30 days unless the judge's order is appealed.