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Woman gets 20 years for killing defacto husband
posted by Matt on 12:03 PM October 27th, 2005
Domestic Violence Anonymous User writes "Finally an "I killed him in self-defence" story that the judge didn't buy!"

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What? No counseling? (Score:2)
by Clancy (long_ponytail@yahoo.com) on 12:28 PM October 27th, 2005 EST (#1)
I guess some crimes speak for themselves. My guess is that if she had shown a few tears, it would have been probation instead of hard time. Must not have had a female attorney. Do stonefaced cold blooded killers that are men get life with a minimum of 20 years? Is the sentencing book divided into 2 sections? First part for women, second part for men?

Female stonefaced cold blooded killers: First, look for signs of teary eyes. If found: Mandatory counseling and probation. If no tears: Lock her up - but not too long.
 
Male stonefaced cold blooded killers: Build a new jail on top of them.

I'm surprised she wasn't awarded points for the sandwich delivery system. "Hey honey buns, how 'bout a sammich?" "Sure pumpkin, sounds great." "Would you like some blunt force trauma to go with that?"
Australia Awakens From Its Misandric Stupor? (Score:2)
by Luek on 04:30 PM October 27th, 2005 EST (#2)
It is about damn time OZ rolled its head off the bed!

However like the other poster said, if she had played to poor little abused woman bit, cried gallons of tears in the courtroom, pinned a hair fall to the back of her head tied with a ribbon preferably pink (having female defendants look as feminine and weak as possible, hair falls and all that is an old trick lawyers use; not kidding, it really is!) she still may have gotten off with a lesser sentence and maybe even successfully played the "abuse excuse" card and gotten nothing except maybe probation.

But things are improving. Slowly but surely.
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