Posted on 06/22/2005 3:36:43 AM PDT by Panerai
A former Marine convicted of trying to contract his wife's murder says he deserves a light sentence because she squandered his money and wouldn't give him sex, dinner or clean laundry.
"Like an ivory tower princess, her delusional attitude seemed to be that it was my duty, my obligation, my purpose, alone, to work off these debts she created,'' Harold Stonier said in a 50-page filing in federal court in Boston, seeking leniency as he awaits sentencing.
Stonier, who was caught on tape plotting various scenarios for his wife's murder, called her a ``spiteful, conniving, vengeful lunatic who creates her own distortion of reality.'' He claimed his wife deprived him of basic comforts such as laundry and marital intimacy, ignored his demands to prepare weekly menus for his approval, and played the TV loud in their bedroom at night, forcing him to watch the women-oriented ``Oxygen Channel.''
Prosecutors asked the court to give the former General Dynamics engineer 15 years in prison at sentencing next month for twice trying to have Jamie Stonier killed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly said Stonier's ``angry diatribe'' shows he has no remorse and ``continues to be a serious threat to the community in general and to his wife in particular.''
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It is my understanding, that when a marriage is irreperably damaged, divorce is the solution, rather than murder of the spouse.
What lexicon does this guy go by?
Er, that is sure the pot calling the kettle black!!!
Oh, you are right. I am bowing in awe and humility before the keyboard right now. Sa-lam, Sa-lam....
More evidence that no marriage at all is far better than a bad one.
Kewl. Is next week's menu ready for me to review yet? ;)
That's the one!
He didn't want to pay for a divorce it sounds like.
*Commander* Salamander?!?
Oh, you just *had* to pull rank, didn't ya?
.....;))
OMG...I am glad I'm single. I couldn't stand living like that....
I find it strangely disturbing.....:))
Well, he was an engineer. It sounds as though he should have hooked up with a subservient gal from a third world country.
LOL - I don't have a sign in the kitchen but I taught my son very early that he ate what Mom and Dad did - no specially prepared meals - or he went hungry. And Dad supports it 100%.
Just this past weekend was funny... he was asking both of us to make him some lunch (He's almost 13 and knows how to make himself lunch - just being lazy)... I was busy so I didn't even respond and I overheard my husband chidingly remind him where the bread and lunch meat resided. He stomped around complaining about not really being hungry until he was reminded that dinner was still a few hours away. Eventually he managed to join Ms. Bread with Mr. Ham. But listening to my husband humorously but gently pointing out to our son how silly his behavior was had me just about ROTFLMAO. AND he did have our son smiling too.
No wonder you can spell it.
Agreed. Much domestic tranquility may be purchased for the small price of sharing some of the 'tedious but necessary' household burdens.
What's with the 'submit weekly menus for approval' stuff? What, is he royalty or something?
I don't work anthing called a washer or a dryer. I do operate a clothing restoration shop consisting of a dirt stripper and a heat turbine
LOL re meal forethought!! (ditto)
Well the Marine will ultimately have his revenge...no money going to the wife while he is in prison. She will have all the burdens of raising her 5 year old her-self. And no chance for the man to earn money in prison to counter the run up of support charges and interest so that when he gets out of prison, he'll be re-arrested for not paying his child support so his wife will never get any support.(this "round robin" is already happening in several states including South Carolina) She'll also be publically known as the lazy wife who never did anything for her husband so no other man will even go near her(no decent fellow anyway).
They both sound nuts!
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