Murderer Pastor's Wife Regains Custody of Children
In what has to be one of the biggest travesty's of justice in America in recent years the Church of Christ pastor's wife who got off with a three year sentance for shooting her husband in the back with a shotgun while he slept (and then only served part of that sentance) has now regained custody of her two daughters.
Her slain husbands parents had custody of the children after she murdered their son but now the murdering mom has regained full custody.
I am so ashamed of the state of Tennessee and the judicial system that let her get away with murder and now have her children back.
Here is a link to the article about her getting her children;
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Re: Murderer Pastor's Wife Regains Custody of Chil
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Originally Posted by Rico
CC1, do you have a problem with the "battered wife syndrome" defense?
Rico, the particulars in this case make the judgement a travesty to me. She said that they were arguing about money. She was dumb enough to lose money in one of those Nigerian scams. She said they were arguing and she just lost it. She shot him in the back while he was laying in bed (not attacking her) and then ran away with her daughters and was arrested in Alabama. She didn't start talking about killing him because of abuse until it came time to build her legal defense.
She served a total of less than 9 months. If any man had done that he would be fried for sure.
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Originally Posted by tstew
Rico, the particulars in this case make the judgement a travesty to me. She said that they were arguing about money. She was dumb enough to lose money in one of those Nigerian scams. She said they were arguing and she just lost it. She shot him in the back while he was laying in bed (not attacking her) and then ran away with her daughters and was arrested in Alabama. She didn't start talking about killing him because of abuse until it came time to build her legal defense.
She served a total of less than 9 months. If any man had done that he would be fried for sure.
I don't remember all the detail of the case, Stew. I just know she shot him, got arrested for what she had done, went the battered wife route, and basically won her case, even though she was convicted of a lesser crime.
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Originally Posted by tstew
Rico, the particulars in this case make the judgement a travesty to me. She said that they were arguing about money. She was dumb enough to lose money in one of those Nigerian scams. She said they were arguing and she just lost it. She shot him in the back while he was laying in bed (not attacking her) and then ran away with her daughters and was arrested in Alabama. She didn't start talking about killing him because of abuse until it came time to build her legal defense.
She served a total of less than 9 months. If any man had done that he would be fried for sure.
It was a jury trial. It's not as if it was some judge with an agenda, the jury found her testimony credible. Most of us have made up our minds not after hearing all the evidence but after reading a 4 paragraph news story.
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Originally Posted by Baron1710
It was a jury trial. It's not as if it was some judge with an agenda, the jury found her testimony credible. Most of us have made up our minds not after hearing all the evidence but after reading a 4 paragraph news story.
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It was a jury trial. It's not as if it was some judge with an agenda, the jury found her testimony credible. Most of us have made up our minds not after hearing all the evidence but after reading a 4 paragraph news story.
Baron, read the initial things she was saying to the police...before a lawyer told her what made sense to say if trying to build a defense. She did not lawyer up immediately and did give many statements that would have gotten any man crucified for sure. This jury was one of the worst since the one that let Mel Ignatow get away with murder because they didn't like the length of the main witness' skirt. The facts of this case make 9 months a travesty.
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Re: Murderer Pastor's Wife Regains Custody of Chil
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Originally Posted by tstew
Baron, read the initial things she was saying to the police...before a lawyer told her what made sense to say if trying to build a defense. She did not lawyer up immediately and did give many statements that would have gotten any man crucified for sure. This jury was one of the worst since the one that let Mel Ignatow get away with murder because they didn't like the length of the main witness' skirt. The facts of this case make 9 months a travesty.
You don't think the jury heard those statements. And ethically an attorney cannot tell you how to testify. The jury had doubts about her guilt of anything less than manslaughter.
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It was a jury trial. It's not as if it was some judge with an agenda, the jury found her testimony credible. Most of us have made up our minds not after hearing all the evidence but after reading a 4 paragraph news story.
She shot the man. Is it true she shot him in the back? If she was a battered wife she could have left. It takes as much will power to blow someone away as it does to walk away
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