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virus: A potential jury nullification
« on: 2003-02-08 02:48:45 » |
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I have been following this story to satisfy my cheap soap opera thrills, and
since its in Texas I get plenty of media coverage about this one. From the
beginning I've had this one spotted for potentially jury nullification. If
you happen to google this one, look at the early reports on this. Some of
the jurors during selection have all but openly declared they would
themselves have killed their own spouses under similar cheating
circumstances. It's been a real riot to follow.
Now she has taken the stand herself. It will be interesting. here is a
snippet of the latest. . . .
HOUSTON (AP) - A dentist who killed her adulterous husband with a
Mercedes-Benz wept Friday as she testified she was trying to smash his
lover's luxury sport-utility vehicle but, ``I think I closed my eyes.''
``After that, I didn't know who was driving,'' Clara Harris told jurors at
her murder trial. ``Everything seemed like a dream.''
After the collision, she got out and looked at David Harris' battered body
lying in a hotel parking lot.
``I couldn't understand what he was doing there,'' she said. ``I had just
seen him running and I didn't know how he got there. ``I said, `David, David,
please talk to me.'''
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Re:virus: A potential jury nullification
« Reply #1 on: 2003-02-19 02:06:40 » |
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Quote from: Jake Sapiens on 2003-02-08 02:48:45
I have been following this story to satisfy my cheap soap opera thrills, and
since its in Texas I get plenty of media coverage about this one. From the
beginning I've had this one spotted for potentially jury nullification. If
you happen to google this one, look at the early reports on this. Some of
the jurors during selection have all but openly declared they would
themselves have killed their own spouses under similar cheating
circumstances. It's been a real riot to follow.
Now she has taken the stand herself. It will be interesting. here is a
snippet of the latest. . . .
HOUSTON (AP) - A dentist who killed her adulterous husband with a
Mercedes-Benz wept Friday as she testified she was trying to smash his
lover's luxury sport-utility vehicle but, ``I think I closed my eyes.''
``After that, I didn't know who was driving,'' Clara Harris told jurors at
her murder trial. ``Everything seemed like a dream.''
After the collision, she got out and looked at David Harris' battered body
lying in a hotel parking lot.
``I couldn't understand what he was doing there,'' she said. ``I had just
seen him running and I didn't know how he got there. ``I said, `David, David,
please talk to me.'''
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Just an update, though I bet everyone has heard, they found her guilty of murder, with a heat of passion finding (that's not really manslaughter as I understand it, but it mitigates punishment) and gave her 20 years in the pen. I wonder if 1 runover in a mercedes=4 years? So she ran over him 5 times and she got 20 years? Actually in Texas it used to be a complete defense to killing your wife if you caught she and her lover in bed together and you pulled out your gun and shot 'em both dead right then and there. I doubt that's actually how the law reads, but that's the general gist as I understood it. There is a Texas fable that the first Texan feminist movement was to change that law. They were seeking equal shooting rights!
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-Jake
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