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. . . .