Jamyra Gallmon, 21, answered an online advertisement for sex. Posing as a man, in line with what the advertisement suggested, she met Mr Messerschmitt at the Donovan Hotel in February. Prosecutors said that Ms Gallmon went to meet the lawyer in order to rob him.

Calculated

Assistant US attorney Shana Fulton said: 'This was not a random robbery. This was calculated and premeditated. She stabbed Mr. Messerschmitt seven times. She plunged a knife into him seven times, even in his back, and she left him there in that hotel room to die.'  Source: Washington Post