Posted on 06/08/2007 12:07:20 PM PDT by navysealdad
Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the March 2006 killing of her minister husband, Matthew. Judge gives her only 60 days in mental hospital............................
Shot husband in back while sleeping. No evidence she was abused, only her word....
Found myself very sympathetic. I think it was the smug look on her in laws faces.
You are right, Mary had the best defense that money could buy.
(I think that they did it for free)
Very wrong. 60 days? What about life?
Shep is making the comparison now between Winkler and Paris Hilton.
Whatever she was told, I always saw a very hardened look on her face....even during the sentencing.
The children are with his parents.....they don't have it easy.
60 days for shooting a sleeping man in the back........words fail me.
Un-frickin'-believable.
I recently read a book about sensational murder cases in Chicago during the 20s.
Several open and shut cases where women murdered their husbands in cold blood. Acquitted by the all male juries.
The musical and movie Chicago were (very) loosely based on these cases.
This reminds me of a movie can’t remember name starred that guy that used to be married to Cindy Crawford—Geer or something like that, he defends this guy and gets him off. The guy acts so dumb and innocent, then after he is found innocent, they found out what a really evil person the defendant was. Winkler looks sneaky to me. A lot isn’t right with that woman. She wants her kids, the question is do they want her.
Oh horror of horrors he made her wear a wig and platform shoes. (According to her)
Whoa! I thought the news said she got 3 years in the pokey.
I took it as the sentence was WRONG not you
Have you ever met someone and they were real quiet and you thought oh they were just some little mousey thing, then you see their real character. Winkler reminds me of that.
Winkler isn’t what I would call attractive however
Sneaky Mary’s judge probably didn’t see the photos of Mary in the cheesy lounge, downing a few drinking and smoking a cigarette while perched on a barstool with the “come hither” look on her face. WHILE OUT ON BAIL FOR MURDER. She’s an even better actress than Ed Norton.
No, correct. She got three years but credit for time served which would give her less than a year to finish in jail.
But the judge held open that she could serve that time in a mental institution.
I live near Nashville and the local reporting is better on this than Court TV.
Just remember, she is a white female who was “mentally tourtered” by her husband....SO SHE GETS A FREE PASS ! If a white man did that to his wife, there would BE HELL TO PAY.
Isn’t PC and equal rights wonderful?
Well, then the parents were given wrong advice. A little emotion (tears) would have gone a long way with me, if I had been on that jury.
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