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. 07-17-2008 10:03 AM
One of the things that always surprised me about that trial was that there were never weapons charges brought against the wife. Usually in Canada the weapons charges are more serious than the actual crime (3 years for manslaughter and 10 years for illegal use of a firearm). If I remember correctly it was a handgun which is a restricted weapon so there would have been a large number of potential charges but I don't think she was charged with any.
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