Woman who shot husband 11 times found not guilty of murder.

Ever heard of the Castle law?

 

You don't know about the thin blue line do you? They defend each other from everybody. Even family. The guy was an ex cop. He got what he had coming.

 

Wow, that is totally screwed.
Guy may have been an ******** but typically citizens are entitled to due process.
I'm certainly not overly sympathetic to LEO(s) either as real DV typically occurs in much higher rates in this profession.

Hey, Maybe he was a terrorist?

 

They just released a woman in Tennessee who was on death row for a while. Her sentence was commuted by Governor Bredeson and the parole board set her free.
The lawyers said she didn't use the battered spouse defense because she didn't want her kids to know about the sexual and physical abuse. They presented hospital records and testimony from co-workers about it to Bredeson. And then to the parole board.

I think there are times it is justifiable.

 

No I am not, he was in no risk when he killed that person. This women still was . So she was in more risk then that pharmacist wich means she had more right to act as she did.

 

What is freaking amazing is how a husband can abuse his wife for years and years and get away with it, especially, if he is a member of Law Enforcement.

Then as soon as the woman takes the law in her own hands, the law mind you that is not protecting her, folks want to come out and scream for Justice. That is what is freaking amazing.

 

A lot of truth to that......

Anyone ever hear of the Tracy Thurman case? Everyone should read what happened to her. She's now permanently disabled b/c of her estranged husband and the cops would drag their feet when she'd call them for help...

 

as a person who thinks it is lowly and nothing but straight cowardice to beat your woman or any woman without an extremely good reason....id say he got what he deserved for all those years of beating his wife.

one less (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)bag, and too bad she didnt shoot his face up so he had to have a closed casket funeral.

 

How about that. We actually agree on something.

 

I agree one hundred percent. No sympathy for the guy here.

 

OMG! Its like she did everything she could to get help but they made excuses and ignored her pleas! That poor woman!
I'm glad to read she sued the city and the police department for failing to protect her. So she should!

 

No, because in Texas, a woman who killed her abusive husband would likely be put on trial and punished by death.

 

Her story was made into a tv movie and I hope she got a ton of $ for selling it to Hollywood. I'll never forget that movie......

Don't remember how much she got in the lawsuit, but it was a lot and she was entitled to every drime+..... for once the jury did the right thing. IIRC, that sick maniac even threatened to kill the child and the cops did nothing...... or maybe that was another case? There's a lot of stories out there about the horrible abuse against women and children and this Barbara Sheehan is another one.

I'm sure she'll be telling her story and I'm glad she's alive to tell it.....

 

I think I read she got just over $2M, which isn't enough when you think about it, but it was the 80's so that was likely a lot back then.
Don't recall Sheehan but I remember a TV movie about a woman named Laurie Kellog who killed her abusive partner...starred Jennie Garth.

Not enough support is given to women in abusive relationships, sadly.

 

One big reason that's cops are reluctant to arrest one of their own for a domestic abuse crime is federal law. Under federal law anyone convicted of a domestic abuse crime is forbidden from ever owning or possessing a firearm. There is no exception for law enforcement.

 

Isn't domestic abuse/violence against the law.

Why should a law enforcement officer be allowed to arrest someone for committing the crime, but it is ok for them to commit the same crime they are arresting you for.

 

Freebie too?


NH Official: Husband, Christopher Smeltzer, Killed Wife, Mara Pappalardo, Who Strangled Son

BRENTWOOD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man who returned home last year to find his 4-year-old son strangled by the boy's mother and a 7-year-old daughter unconscious has pleaded guilty to killing his wife as she tried to commit suicide.

The description in court was the first time authorities revealed what caused the November death of Mason Smeltzer and the injuries to his sister, Mercey Smeltzer.

The revelations came as the children's father, 38-year-old Christopher Smeltzer, pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree murder in the beating death of his wife, Mara Pappalardo.

New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young says Pappalardo had been hospitalized for paranoia.

Smeltzer told police he "lost his marbles" and attacked Pappalardo with a flashlight. She had a rope around her neck, preparing to commit suicide.

New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said Pappalardo feared that Smeltzer and her mother-in-law wanted to take the children away from her, TV station WMUR reports.

Believing that both of his children were dead, Smeltzer tried to kill himself by taking all the pills he could find in the house, The Union Leader says. But in the morning, his daughter who'd had a ribbon tied around her neck, woke him up and he called 911, according to the newspaper.

Prosecutors recommended a 10-year imprisonment for Smeltzer, although he faces up to 30 years behind bars. Sentencing will be decided on Dec. 2.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/nh-official-husband-chris_n_996195.html

 

Sheehan is the woman who shot her husband 11 times....

 

Oh my gawd......... the man had lost it, pure and simple. He came home from work to find his son killed by the mother and believed she strangled his daughter also simply lost it.......

If that isn't a legit insanity defense, then I don't know what is.

Since they're going to sentence him, I hope the sentence is as light as possible - he has a daughter who needs him.....

 

Hey come on give her a break! She was probably just like the rest of us, watching those scary movies and screaming "SHOOT HIM AGAIN HE's NOT DEAD!!". And of course, they never do, then BAM, the bad guy gets up and whamo, another innocent victim.

 

I agree. I can totally understand why he might have done that, coming home to find your wife had killed your child and was about to hang herself...hell, I'd save her life so I could watch the (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) fry!

 

what the heck? why did she have to kill him? she's a killer. She should just have left him or reported him to police. it's murder.

 

Women killing their significant other is the great "Blame the Victim" crime. The dead guy is always at fault. There is a huge support network ready and willing to support the murderer. There is a large list of psychologists who are willing to testify that the woman's behavior, whatever it is, is a classic example of the battered woman syndrome.

In this case, the adult children testified to an "abusive" home but in many cases it's just the poor widow sobbing out her story. I remember a District Attorney who didn't even want to file charges on a woman for murdering her husband, He repeated her litany of horror.
"Any witneses?"
"Well, no, of course not."
"Any videotapes, audio tapes, Polaroid shots? Any doctors' reports or any close friends or relatives to whom she told of the horror?"
"No, none of that, But, Pat, she would lie."

Of course not. She had his life insurance changed so she wouldn't lose the money and she tiptoed up and shot him in the head twice while he slept but, golly, she wouldn't tell a lie.

But, we all know that all women are loving, sensitive creatures who cannot tell a lie.

 

*sigh!* go back, read the article and the following posts and try again.....

 

Out of all your posts I've read which were of logic and empathy for the victims you've come across, this one coming from a former cop is really surprising.

So are you saying there isn't any such thing as domestic violence, that women are never threatened w/death from their abusive husbands, that there is never any justification for a woman to defend herself?

Your last sentence speaks volumes about your attitude towards women....