Posted on 02/23/2007 5:06:49 PM PST by SmithL
MARTINEZ - The Orinda woman who murdered her husband three decades after meeting him when he was her therapist was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison.
Judge Laurel Brady told Susan Polk that she didn't believe her claim that she stabbed to death Felix Polk in an act of self-defense.
"I did not find that evidence credible, not did it match the physical evidence," Brady told the 49-year-old Polk.
Polk averted her away from the judge as Brady handed down the sentence. Within a few seconds, she began taking notes on a pad in front of her.
A jury convicted Polk last year of second-degree murder for stabbing to death her 70-year-old husband in 2002.
Prosecutors said Polk planned to kill her husband after learning that she lost alimony and custody of his youngest son during their divorce settlement
Acting as her own attorney at her trial, Polk said her husband attacked her and she stabbed him.
Polk Ping
Good....I hope she never gets out.
Friday, February 23, 2007 (02-23) 16:54 PST MARTINEZ -- Convicted murderer Susan Polk defiantly refused to ask for mercy today before being sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing her psychotherapist husband at their Orinda home in 2002. "Shame on you all," Polk said from the witness stand. "This was a political trial, that's what it was. I was tried for blasphemy. I don't even feel sorry for myself. I'm not going to beg for mercy. I'm not going on my knees." She likened herself to being in a coma from which she might wake up someday. "Maybe I'll have some good dreams." She said she probably wouldn't be able to bake cookies, but "maybe I'll write good stories" from prison. Moments later, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady sentenced Polk, 49, to the maximum term on a second-degree murder conviction along with a weapons enhancement, capping a trial that drew widespead attention after the Orinda housewife defended herself on charges that she killed her husband, Felix Polk, 70, during an acrimonious divorce. Polk did not visibly react in a Martinez courtroom when Brady pronounced the sentence. Earlier today, the judge denied her motion for a new trial on various grounds presented by Polk and her county-appointed attorneys, Linda Fullerton and Paul Feurerwerker. Polk cried before the hearing started. . . .
No, you were tried for murder!
I'll sleep a little better knowing that this froot-loop is in the Greybar Hotel.
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