Court: Running over husband with SUV five times is not evidence of premeditated murder

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'Well, perhaps ten times would be premeditate then? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday, May 24, in a rare use of its powers ruled that a women who ran over her husband five times with a minivan should not be convicted of first-degree murder according to the Boston Globe.

According to the court, apparently the woman’s mental issues were responsible for the way she killed Richard Rutkowski. Even though the wife called her husband “retarded” and predicted killing him by saying something like: “You will be dead very soon”, the court did not believe this was evidence of premeditation.

The wife began by throwing her husband’s close out the window of a Palmer, Massachusetts building to the parking lot below. She then got into a minivan and drove over her husband who was standing in the parking lot. She then proceeded to back up and run over him again, about five times.'