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posted by Adam on Wednesday June 25, @05:26PM
from the Using-double-standards dept.
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Matt writes "Look how our friends at MSN are covering this story
Note that the headline is: "Trial begins in bizarre traffic death". You can be sure it would not be that circumspect in judgment were the defendant male and the victim female (the reverse is true in this case).
Her lawyer stated in his opening that his client was "...hysterical, terrorized and confused." Um, excuse me? She had a dead or dying person on her car's hood which she got into and drove homeward after she had been drinking and drugging-- and this is how her lawyer makes her out to be? Can you imagine the same being used to describe a male perp and a female victim-- imagine this being said in a court under the same circumstances: "He was hysterical, terrorized and confused." It isn't imaginable, is it? It'd never happen.
Then, she called her friends to help her move the dead/dying man off her car and later dump his body in a park. They obliged her. Well, what's that saying, "Friends help you move, real friends help you move bodies"? Guess she has some real friends, all right.
Well, read the article for yourself. Wanna bet that no way in hell does she get the death sentence for it? Now had a man done this-- well, we know what they'd do to him. I am guessing she maybe gets 10-20, tops. Likely she'll be out in 8 if she even gets that much time. She'll be like the other women who kill men in Texas and all but get away with it.
I am never going to Texas. It seems to me it's too dangerous for men-- right up there with marriage and children."
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Matt wrote "Her lawyer stated in his opening that his client was '...hysterical, terrorized and confused.' Can you imagine the same being used to describe a male perp and a female victim"
The excuse for a male perp might be different, but in fairness I think we should realize that most lawyers will say anything that they think will get their clients off. The fault isn't with the particular lawyer (and Matt may not mean that it is) but that society may well go easy on the perp because of accepting this excuse for women.
Matt also said, "She'll be like the other women who kill men in Texas..."
What the hell is going on down there?
Finally, Matt said, "It seems to me it's (Texas is) too dangerous for men-- right up there with marriage and children."
Unfortunately, if the radfems have their way, and it appears they will soon in the United Kingdom (see this thread), then staying single and fatherless may not be any help to a man. A woman will be able to declare that a man is the father of her children and she will be able to bar him from obtaining DNA evidence to prove his innocence.
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I've lived in Texas all but 3 years of my life, so would like to offer a few comments.
First in case you really didn't know "What the hell is going on down (t)here," for some reason beyond me, Texas has had a recent rash of wives/girlfriends purposely running over their husbands/boyfriends with cars and trucks. Instead of being aghast like they should, and would if the genders were reversed, the media is making into one big joke.
Unlike the other cases, this one is closer to stranger on stranger violence (she knew of him but didn't know him prior to the incident). More important is the role of drugs and alcohol.
Texan law is stupidly tolerant of drunk driving. If you drive drunk and hit and kill someone, it is involuntary manslaughter, not murder by Texas law. That is what she should be convicted of and given the maximum sentence. Texas can't execute you for that charge.
I'm as horrified as everyone else here that the other cases, which did not involve drugs or alcohol were not charged and convicted as 1st degree murder leading to an execution.
David S.
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Thanks for the comments, David. I've also wondered about the spate of baby killings in Texas. Maybe it's just what's grabbing the attention of the media, but it's begun to seem to me that the number of such crimes is inordinately high in Texas.
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Let's not forget, Rags, by her own admission he took A COUPLE OF DAYS to die, begging for her to get help, and she just kept telling him how sorry she was.
"I'm so sorry - I know I'm killing you - but you have to die so my life can be easy and I don't have to take responsibility for my actions." Jeez. If this isn't the summary of the pheminine psyche, I don't know what is.
---- Burn, Baby, Burn ----
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>"I'm so sorry - I know I'm killing you - but you >have to die so my life can be easy and I don't >have to take responsibility for my actions."
I know she wouldn't say this in trial, but could anyone else see how simply apologizing would seem MORE agonizing to the victim and make it MORE of a heinous crime? To have time to recover from the 'horror/drugs/alcohol' and still just say "sorry." I mean, really; in Texas if a guy just told his slowly dying female victim, while later sober that it would really just mess things up too much to let them live he'd get death. I suppose with any luck it's an extended death sentence for this woman. Still.
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She got 50 years for the murder and 10 years for tampering with evidence. The sentences are to run CONCURRENTLY!
A male would get this for just consensual sex with a 15 year old girl going on 35.
PPPFFFFTTT!!!.....
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