Tennis umpire cheers, cries after release

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Hours after murder charges were dismissed, tennis umpire Lois Goodman raised her right leg so that a bail bonds official could cut the black electronic monitoring device from her ankle.

With the ankle bracelet removed, Goodman raised both of her hands and let out a cheer. She then began to clap.

Asked how it felt, Goodman responded:

‘Still expensive,’ she joked, an apparent reference to legal costs.

Sitting in a chair at the Sherman Oaks office of one of her attorneys, Goodman choked up as she remembered her husband.

‘I didn’t do anything. I would never hurt my husband,’ Goodman said, her eyes filling with tears. ‘I loved him and I was his caretaker, and he came first and then I came second.’

After news broke that she had been freed Friday, she said calls have been pouring in from ‘all over the United States--you know (from) friends that I have worked with--all so so happy.’

So happy, Goodman said they cried.

Now, she added: ‘I want my old life back.’

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