page_title: Christine Paolilla
section_title: Conviction
hierarchical_section_title: Christine Paolilla / Conviction
caption_attribution_description: English: Mountain View Unit Español: Unidad Mountain View
context_page_description: Christine Marie Paolilla is a convicted American mass murderer who is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting four people, including two of her friends, in their Clear Lake City, Texas home on July 18, 2003. The killings, which came to be known as the Clear Lake Murders, made national headlines.
  Paolilla, who was 17 years old at the time of the murders, was accompanied by her then-boyfriend, Christopher Snider. She was arrested on July 19, 2006, three years and one day after the murders were committed. Paolilla was convicted in October 2008 and sentenced to life in prison. Snider committed suicide in July 2006 before he was apprehended by police.
context_section_description: On October 13, 2008, Paolilla was convicted of four counts of capital murder. As she had been a juvenile offender at the time of the killings, she was spared the death penalty. The following day, she was sentenced to life in prison. Paolilla filed an appeal on November 29, 2008 on the grounds that "the trial court abused its discretion in setting [Paolilla's] amount of bail at $500,000". An appeals panel decided that the court did not abuse its discretion and affirmed Paolilla's original sentence. She has since filed additional appeals which have also been denied.
  As of 2020, Paolilla is incarcerated at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas and will be eligible for parole in 2046, when she will be aged 60.
caption: Mountain View Unit, where Paolilla is imprisoned
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