Gotta love our legal system...

[Nitemare]

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Must serve 35 years :roll:
Yet another time when I'm sad to be an American

 

[AFB]

Stupid

 

[tec699]

I disagree with your opinion. This is the year 2004 not 1950. There are many support groups that she could have went to if she wanted to seek help. She didn't, so she decides the only other alternative is to kill her husband? Sorry but I don't want to live in that type of society.

 

[Dacalo]

But you shouldn't be the law and take matters into your own hands.

It's unfortunate that woman suffered abuses, but she should have contacted the police instead of disposing her husband with a gun.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: tec699
I disagree with your opinion. This is the year 2004 not 1950. There are many support groups that she could have went to if she wanted to seek help. She didn't so she decides the olny other alternative is to kill her husband? Sorry but I don't want to live in that type of society.

She put up with beatings for three days.
Kept the body around for a year.

Not that the judge felt the mandatory sentaence was excessive, however, that was the law.

She could have solved/mitigated the problem even with a killing, but waiting over a year added some doubt to her story.

 

[episodic]

She should have got either life or the death penalty. She could've left if she liked - as tec699 said it is relatively easy (logistically) for a woman to leave an abusive situation these days.

 

[imported_Tomato]

The fact she lived in a house with his rotting corpse for over a year is slightly disturbing.

 

[Vic]

I feel sorry for her but... she did the wrong thing. In many ways. She should have called 911 for starters. It's not like we don't have (now) easily enforcable laws against domestic violence. And, after the killing, she should have called the police and turned herself in. She might have found leniency there, as she probably would have had injuries to prove her case. Lying to authorities and waiting a year to get caught is why she's going to prison now... that just makes it very difficult to believe her.

 

[dgm]

She lied about her husband's disappearance, which means she knew what she did was wrong.

Buh-bye. Have fun in prison.