[SmithL]

Mary Winkler (left) hugs attorney Kay Farese Turner after testifying in court Wednsday to try to regain custody of her three daughters. While the girls remain in the custody of Winkler's in-laws, a judge ruled she can begin supervised visits.

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Winkler, 33, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April for killing husband Matthew Winkler, a Church of Christ minister in Selmer, Tenn. She is on probation from a three-year prison sentence after serving seven months in custody. She is now fighting to regain custody of her children.

[traditional1]

""My children need 100 percent of their family,"

Yeah, well what about that part of their family that will never be there, thanks to you?

What a sad commentary on the state of our legal system and the Juries that we have today.

Less than 6 months of jail-time for a woman who blows away her husband with a shotgun blast to the back?

[theDentist]

"My children need 100 percent of their family," Winkler said.

Well, I'd say she's whittling that 100% down.... didn't they need Dad too?

[Halls]

The judge is obviously not going to terminate Mary’s right’s seeing he gave her supervised visitation. The grandparent’s will not be allowed to adopt.

I forsee Mary will not regain full custody, but work her way up to a more stable unsupervised visitation plan after a while of supervised visitation.

Do I think this woman deserves this? Not sure and lean more towards no way!

[Sybeck1]