Was there reasonable doubt? If not, drag “it” out to the curb and shoot it behind the ear. Leave “it” for the sanitation engineer to collect.
He claimed that his wife poured hot tea on his genitals and hence her killing (he wrapped a wire around her throat) was ‘self defense’. The jury didn’t buy it.
“Michelle’s case is being watched by other transgender inmates. No other transgender has successfully sued their state to cover the cost of sex change surgery.”
Doubt there was ANY doubt. More about this “guy” (much like some cars, they want to do some work on the tranny...)
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2009/02/09/mansfield/4239108.txt
Inmate suicide raises concerns for Kosilek
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Inmate suicide raises concerns for Kosilek
Lawyers for a transgender killer from Mansfield say there are weaknesses in system that could result in another death
BOSTON - The apparent prison suicide of a cross-dressing dermatologist has exposed weaknesses in the state’s ability to prevent inmates from killing themselves, according to lawyers for a transgender convicted killer from Mansfield who has been waiting for years for a judge to rule on a request to have a sex-change operation.
Michelle Kosilek, who has said she feels distressed “every waking moment” as a woman trapped inside a man’s body, is housed in the same prison where Dr. Richard Sharpe was found hanging by a bed sheet from the top bunk last week.
Sharpe was serving a life sentence in the prison in Norfolk for killing his wife in 2000.
Kosilek, as Robert Kosilek, was convicted of murdering his wife in 1990 in their Mansfield condominium, then dumping her body at Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro. Kosilek, who was sentenced to life in prison, legally changed her name to Michelle in 1993, and has been living as a woman in the all-male lockup.
Frances Cohen, one of Kosilek’s lawyers, said Tuesday that she is concerned Sharpe found a way to commit suicide inside his cell. “The Department of Correction has consistently taken the position that they have in place adequate suicide prevention policies, and the Sharpe case shows that may not be the case,” Cohen said.
Kosilek is suing the DOC in federal court, seeking to force prison officials to arrange her sex-reassignment surgery. A trial began in May 2006, but Judge Mark Wolf has yet to issue his ruling.
Kosilek testified at the trial that she suffered from depression and had twice tried to commit suicide.
She also sent a handwritten letter to Wolf in October, saying, “no one but me truly knows the depth of my despair.”
“This pain is intimately destructive,” Kosilek wrote.
That first article was wrong about the destination of the ‘hot tea’:
“Look, I had a fifteen year old son and a wife. I can’t call my wife. I murdered my wife. Now, I need to call a psychiatrist now.” SNIP
About two and one-half years later, in October of 1992, the defendant gave a series of recorded interviews to a television news reporter. An audiotape recording of one of the interview sessions was played for the jury. During the interview, the defendant stated that: on the day of the murder, he and the victim had been in an argument; the victim threw boiling tea into the defendant’s face; he then knocked the victim down; she grabbed a butcher knife and chased the defendant into another room, threatening to kill him; he picked up a piece of wire that had been on a table; and this was all he was able to recall until he woke up days later in the hospital. The defendant stated in the interview that he “probably, because of the trauma of it . . . went into a black out at that moment.” He also said, “Apparently, I did take her life. It was probably in self-defense.”