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Fred Lane's wife pleads guilty to manslaughter
posted by D on Thursday August 14, @11:08PM
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Domestic Violence Doug writes "As per this story that just broke, the wife of former Carolina Panthers running back Fred Lane has plead guilty to killing him. Apparently she was trying to cash in on a 5-million dollar life insurance policy. It's interesting to note that her defense was centered around allegations of abuse by her husband, but she was still convincted."

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manslaughter? WTF? (Score:1)
by scudsucker on Friday August 15, @04:49AM EST (#1)
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Manslaughter is for when you accidently kill someone. Lying in wait with a shotgun is not "accidental". At least this should have been second degree murder.
Re:manslaughter? WTF? (Score:1)
by SacredNaCl on Friday August 15, @07:56AM EST (#2)
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This is cold blooded murder. This is he comes home and she blows him away with a shotgun the second he opens the door, then shoots him again. He doesn't even have time to carry in his luggage. Just by looking at the physical evidence her story doesn't add up. He was probably only alive for a few seconds after entering the home. A guy coming home from a trip might open up the door and prop it open to carry his luggage in...But he's going to go get it from the car right away. This whole thing just doesn't add up to anything but murder 1.

24 years old too, he had most of his life ahead of him, potentially a great career. She could of divorced & took his money, she didn't have to kill him. If she was afraid, as she claims, she could of left the house. This is nothing other than cold blooded murder. Manslaughter? Yeah, a man was slaughtered alright...


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Re:manslaughter? WTF? (Score:2)
by Luek on Friday August 15, @09:59AM EST (#4)
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*****She could of divorced & took his money, she didn't have to kill him.***** So you are saying she would have been justified and her right as a wife to economically enslave this man potentially for life if children were in the equation? I believe this is just as bad as killing a man and as immoral too. We as men in the fledgling men's movement have to get our minds right about what we believe and what we want. This convoluted reasoning just will not do!
Re:manslaughter? WTF? (Score:1)
by SacredNaCl on Saturday August 16, @02:35AM EST (#8)
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So you are saying she would have been justified and her right as a wife to economically enslave this man potentially for life if children were in the equation? I believe this is just as bad as killing a man and as immoral too. I don't think that is right either, but it further shows the extreme ends she went in her act. She could of profited no matter what, we all knows the laws don't represent mens interest in those areas one iota. But instead of just being content with that form of abuse, she cranks two rounds from a shotgun into him in premeditated murder in the hopes of getting all his assets and the insurance money.

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Re:manslaughter? WTF? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 15, @11:07AM EST (#5)
I think she plead down from Murder One...
Re:manslaughter? WTF? (Score:1)
by Smoking Drive (f8@tpg.com.au) on Friday August 15, @08:38AM EST (#3)
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Accidents aren't manslaughter. Generally they are no crime at all. Manslaughter is deliberate violence alright. If the gun had just discharged in a genuine accident while she was showing him how to check whether there's a bullet in the chamber by looking down the barrel, that would not be any crime.

IANAL, but manslaughter usually seems to be the charge where the killing wasn't premeditated or death wasn't the intended outcome -- sort of a heat of the moment thing.

I agree the circumstances look more like "murder one", so this may not be anything to cheer about. Spurious charges of DV may have got her off a capital charge.

cheers,
Tim

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It Was Self-Defense, Not Murder! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 15, @12:03PM EST (#6)
In one chapter of his book THE MYTH OF MALE POWER, Warren Farrell lists twelve legal defenses for murder that are available to women only.

One of the twelve is the popular "Battered Woman Syndrome," developed by feminists in the 1980's to exonerate women from acts of first degree murder.

The quote following is frighteningly relevant to the murder-to-manslaughter plea bargain granted to the athlete's female killer:

"Until 1982, anyone who called a premeditated murder self-defense would have been laughed out of court. But in 1982, Lenore Walker won the first legal victory for her women-only theory of learned helplessness, which suggests that a woman whose husband or boyfriend batters her becomes fearful for her life and helpless to leave him so IF SHE KILLS HIM, IT IS REALLY SELF-DEFENSE -- even if she had premeditated his murder.

The woman is said to be a victim of the Battered Woman Syndrome. Is it possible a woman could kill, let's say, for insurance money? Lenore Walker says no: she claims, "Women don't kill men unless they've been pushed to a point of desperation."

Ironically, feminists have often said, "There's never an excuse for violence against a woman." Now they are saying, "But there's ALWAYS an excuse for violence against a man... if a woman does it."

This psychotic feminist distortion of legal reality is now the law in the majority of states, ensuring that no woman will ever receive the death penalty for killing a man.
WTF?? (Score:2)
by frank h on Friday August 15, @12:17PM EST (#7)
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"convincted" ?? WTF, Over.
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