( CNN ) -- After spending a total of seven months in custody , the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back was released on Tuesday , her lawyer told CNN . Holding baby Breanna , Mary Winkler stands next to Matthew . In the foreground are Mary Alice and Patricia . Mary Winkler , a 33-year-old mother of three girls , was freed from a Tennessee mental health facility where she was treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder , lawyer Steve Farese said . `` She is out , '' Farese said . Farese said his client will not talk to the news media because she continues to wage a legal battle to win custody of her girls and faces a $ 2 million civil suit filed by the parents of her slain husband , Matthew Winkler . Except for her oldest daughter 's brief testimony at her trial , Winkler has n't seen her children in a year , the lawyer said . Winkler will return to work at the dry cleaners in McMinnville , Tennessee , where she worked before the trial , Farese said . She is living with friends . Winkler served about five months in county jail as she awaited trial , then spent two months undergoing therapy at the mental health facility following her conviction for voluntary manslaughter . Winkler never denied shooting her husband , Matthew , the popular new preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer , a town of 4,500 people about 80 miles east of Memphis . On March 22 , 2006 , church elders found his body -- with a shotgun wound to the back -- in the bedroom of the parsonage after he failed to show up for an evening service . His wife was arrested the next day with the couple 's three young daughters in Orange Beach , Alabama , on the Gulf coast . Mary Winkler was charged with murder , which could have sent her to prison for up to 60 years , but a jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter following an emotional trial in which she testified about suffering years of verbal and physical abuse . In a statement to police after her arrest , Winkler said she did n't recall pulling the trigger .She said she apologized and wiped the blood that bubbled from her dying husband 's lips as he asked , `` Why ? '' Prosecutors and Matthew Winkler 's family members said he was a good husband and father . But on the stand , Mary Winkler described a hellish 10-year marriage during which , she said , her husband struck her , screamed at her , criticized her and blamed her when things went wrong . She said he made her watch pornography and wear `` slutty '' costumes for sex , and that he forced her to submit to sex acts that made her uncomfortable . She testified she pointed the shotgun at her husband during an argument to force him to talk through their problems , and `` something went off . '' A defense psychologist testified that she was depressed and showed classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder . Mary Winkler initially received a three-year sentence in June . But Circuit Court Judge J. Weber McCraw required that she serve only 210 days , and allowed her to serve the rest of the time on probation . She also received credit for five months she spent behind bars awaiting trial , which left only about 60 days to her sentence . McCraw ruled she could serve the time in a mental health facility . Since Mary Winkler 's arrest , the couple 's three children have been cared for by Matthew Winkler 's parents , who have filed court papers seeking to terminate her parental rights . E-mail to a friend .
NEW : Mary Winkler , 33 , is out of custody . She shot her preacher husband in the back with a shotgun in March 2006 . She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter , served less than a year . She now faces a legal battle with her in-laws over children , husband 's death .