WISCASSET (AP) – A woman who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges in her husband’s death last summer has been convicted of assaulting him in an earlier incident.

Amy Dugas, 36, was sentenced to 330 days in jail Thursday for kicking her husband in the eye. She also received a concurrent 307-day sentence for kicking a police officer in the groin when tried to arrest her.

The assault charges were brought against Amy Dugas months before her husband Mark was fatally stabbed at their home in Waldoboro.

Amy Dugas testified that both men – her husband and the police officer – attacked her for no reason.

Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren said Thursday that he imposed a harsher sentence than he would have because of Dugas’ testimony.

“I am offended by the disrespect of the oath (to tell the truth) exhibited by this defendant,” Warren said. “She came in here and acted at trial as if the law didn’t apply to her and she didn’t have to tell the truth.”

Dugas was arrested on Feb. 26, 2004, after witnesses said she went to a stranger’s house looking for her husband. In addition to kicking the two men, she was charged with damaging a police cruiser and refusing to sign a criminal complaint.

On June 4, 2004, Mark Dugas was killed by a single stab wound to the chest. Amy Dugas was charged with murder.

At her trial, she testified that her husband attacked her with a knife and she stabbed him in self-defense. The only witness was her son, who testified he saw his mother retrieve the knife before the stabbing.

After deliberating for 12 hours, the jury acquitted her of murder and manslaughter.

Watching her assault trial, members of Mark Dugas’ family said they were relieved by the guilty verdicts.

“She didn’t get away with it this time,” said Ken Dugas of Surry, the dead man’s brother.

Amy Dugas is the mother of two children, who are now living with their aunt in Tennessee. Dugas will try to serve her probation in Tennessee, her lawyer said.

“My children and I will grieve every single day,” she said. “It will never be the same again.”