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We knew that the East Bay couple accused of murdering their son-in-law in concert with one another had obtained separate defense council. And now it looks like the wife is trying to blame it all on the husband.Curtis Briggs, the attorney for 77-year-old Shili Chen, now asserts in a court filing ahead of a November 4 bail hearing that his client should be freed because she had nothing to do with the killing of son-in-law Jonathan McKinsey. Her husband, 77-year-old, Shouyong Zhang, was fixated on McKinsey and kept her in the dark about his plans to shoot McKinsey, according to the court filing, per the California Post. And, Briggs says that Chen was told to bring a gun because they were going to a shooting range, and that after Zhang had already fired the fatal shot that killed their son-in-law, she only got out of the car to protect her husband from what she feared was an assault by Mr. McKinsey. Witnesses and police have suggested that the couple took turns shooting McKinsey o