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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
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.
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If I remember right, the prosecutor succesfully argued that in the time that the husband left the room to get the murder intrument he had time to step back and think about what he was about to do, so it went from a heat of the moment type thing to a planned event because he had to walk back with the guitar and basically plan who he was going to hit first etc.
Remember that back then, probably in the late 70's, there was no such thing as arguing dissociative disorders or zombie killing sprees. The P-Shrink probably talked to this guy for 10 minutes, tapped his knees with a hammer and said that he knew the difference between right and wrong and he remember the event.