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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thats pretty funny, I admit, I laughed pretty hard.
The case was actually tragic because the guy came home to find his wife and brother horizontal and buck. Because he left the room to grab the guitar it became premeditated murder instead of a crime of passion, and I think the guy ended up with 25 years in prison.
If he would have stayed in the room and grabbed the nearest object and beat them to death, he probably would have gotten manslaughter and a much lighter sentence.
My Dad recalled that there was a lot of sympathy for this guy by the jury, but there was nothing that they could do since it was pretty open and shut.
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There had to have been something else. My wife was on the case where the wife went to the other end of the house, retrieved her gun, came back, and shot the oil exec husband six times in the garage. The weird thing is he lived (must have been a bad shot) and testified in her favor at the trial. It was successfully argued she went into a disassociative state, and ended up getting hospital time instead of prison time. Perhaps she could just afford a better lawyer? It was weird seeing the wife get on the bus on the news as they were sequestered, and then not seeing or hearing from her for three days. My wife also read and watched news clips about the trial after it was over and laughed at how inaccurate media accounts of everything about the trial really were.