Husband-Slay Suspect Mary Winkler in Court as Jury Selection Begins

FOXNEWS.COM ^ | 4/9/2007 | Associated Press

[OrangeDaisy]

SELMER, Tenn. — A young minister's wife walked into court with her lawyers Monday for the start of her murder trial in the shotgun killing of her husband in their church parsonage.

Mary Winkler, a quiet mother of three, was met by a crowd of photographers and TV cameras as she arrived for the start of jury selection.

Authorities said Matthew Winkler, 31, minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in this small western Tennessee town, was struck by a single blast on March 22, 2006. His wife was arrested a day later in Orange Beach, Ala., some 340 miles from Selmer, with their three young daughters.

[OrangeDaisy]

The trial is supposed to be broadcast on Court TV.

See also:

Town craves answers from Winkler trial (Tennessean)

Inside the courtroom: Mary Winkler (Commerical Appeal)

[OrangeDaisy]

Is this worthy of the church of Christ ping list?

[jokar]

GOSSIP or news you decide.

[vetvetdoug]

Most women in the area have already sainted her. Farese is setting the jury up to the “poor mistreated abused wife” defense. With all of the sympathy, one would think that Sharpton and Jackson would be her support.