TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Ashley Benefield, the center of the “Black Swan” trial, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation after she was found guilty of manslaughter in July.

The 32-year-old former ballerina will receive credit for time served.

Ashley Benefield has 30 days to appeal the sentence.

Before her conviction, the defendant claimed that her husband, Doug Benefield struck her face while blocking the doorway of her home as she was trying to leave. After that, she said she ran to her bedroom to get her gun, and he followed.

As she pointed the gun at him, she claims he took a “fighting stance” and eventually lunged at her, which is when she fired multiple shots, killing the victim.

Ashley Benefield’s defense described Doug Benefield as a manipulative and controlling man who had violent tendencies throughout the couple’s four-year marriage. The defendant stopped living with her husband shortly after becoming pregnant with his child in 2017 following a vasectomy reversal.

Taylor told the jury Ashley Benefield was a victim of domestic violence and the night Doug attacked her at her home, she was forced to shoot him out of fear for her own life.

“I was scared to death. I thought he was going to kill me. I didn’t know where to go. I was trapped,” she told jurors during her trial.

However, the prosecution countered that the incident resulted from a custody battle that Ashley was trying to win, not domestic violence.

Assistant State Attorney Suzanne O’Donnell said Ashley Benefield had a conversation with a detective two years before the shooting, in which she said she planned to use the criminal system to affect her court case.

O’Donnell also pointed out that the defendant was the only armed person that night, and that she didn’t have to shoot him.

Because after she killed him, what does she get? Sole custody of the child, and that is murder,” O’Donnell said during the closing arguments of the jury trial.