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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Same thing you posted just before?
Is this crime about a drunk driver? Then why do we compare their alcohol content to the legal limit for drunk driving?
Note to self: Self, don’t drink and drive a slow cooker.
I have no idea. I gave you a 5x to replace the 4x in your post.
Third paragraph.
My only question is how did she manage to get her to fit into the slow cooker?
Oh, I didn’t mean to be specific to this gal, guess it would have helped. But, you continued the point... what does the legal limit of intoxication for driving have to do with anything not driving related?
Guess it means she was rather ... drunk.
Substantially ... drunk.
Put her away for life. Or they tried, then offered a plea deal.
OH. I was looking for some explanation of her cutting her up and cooking her .... slowly.
Crazy eyes.
Then say she was very intoxicated... but just like the subtleties the media uses when discussing other topics, they change what is the focus. Such as giving inanimate objects the power to commit crime (SUV kills, gun kills, etc).
I’m just here for the comments...
“Not nearly as horrible as I thought. I thought she was cooked in one from reading the headline.”
Same here-—maybe I’ve done too much reading on serial killers and depraved minds, or it is just incompetence of the so-called journalist.
Yea, the headline is full of that insinuation. Tabloid junk headline.
Put in hand, swing hard against against a skull. Repeat process for desired effect.
Old days it was a frying pan, now a slow cooker.
Ya but that one has handles for right and left handers. Just grab and beat.
I hope she washed that cooker first.
This is the first time I have heard of somebody in the point-fours.
Wow.
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