Posted on 06/15/2015 6:39:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit woman who was drunk when she killed a friend with a slow cooker during an argument over presidential politics was sentenced Monday to at least 23 years in prison.
A judge followed the recommended sentence in a plea deal between prosecutors and Tewana Sullivan, who has a history of bipolar disorder but was declared competent to go to trial.
Sullivan, 51, beat Cheryl Livy, 66, with a slow cooker at the victim's Livonia apartment in October. At the time, Sullivan's blood-alcohol level was 0.41 — five times the level for drunken driving in Michigan, defense attorney John McWilliams said.
"I didn't take my medication like I was supposed to, so I did mess up," Sullivan told Wayne County Judge Michael Hathaway. "Without me taking my medication, that was the worst thing I could ever have done."
McWilliams said the two were arguing about the 2016 race for president.
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I’m confused and even after reading the entire article I don’t know. How do you murder someone with a slow cooker?
Not nearly as horrible as I thought. I thought she was cooked in one from reading the headline.
Whoa, for a second there I thought that Fake-hontas had been whacked by that white squaw!!!!
I would guess she was swinging it like a club at the victim.
Bang the drum slowly.
So . . . which one was the Hillary 2016 supporter?
The article doesn’t really appear to say.
But, I think I saw it happened in 2014, so I’m not sure who was being considered.
Hillary of course, even then.
WOW!!
What an Obama-esque excuse.
Like many others, i thought the woman in question sat drinking beer while slowly turning her political opponent over on a spit. Never mind.
Highest recorded survived BAC is over 1.5%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content#Highest_recorded_blood_alcohol_level.2Fcontent
She is a lifetime alcoholic. Most people couldn’t function, much less swing a pressure cooker around and kill someone.
My pet peeve: who cares what the legal limit to drive is when you are discussing blood alcohol content in a non-drunk driving situation.
It gets even worse when they leave off “to drive.” this person was 4x time legal limit...
In some states, or at least one, she was slightly over 5x the legal limit.
legal limit for what?
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