Posted on 04/05/2007 2:43:06 PM PDT by Kimmers
Jurors convicted an 81-year-old woman of felony battery Wednesday for hitting a police officer with her cane.
Betty Chambers showed no reaction when the guilty verdict was announced, but outside the courtroom she used a newspaper to hide her face from cameras. "I'm sick of seeing my picture on TV! I've done nothing wrong!" she said.
The verdict came one day after a judge dropped a charge of resisting law enforcement against Chambers, who claimed she acted in self-defense.
Chambers could face six months to three years in prison when she is sentenced May 15 in St. Joseph Superior Court.
Chambers also is being sued by two officers who say they were injured when they went to her home south of South Bend to check on her welfare in February 2005.
When Cpl. Lonny Foresman and Detective Sgt. John Pavlekovich arrived, the woman's caretaker, Thomas Holleman, now 58, became argumentative and told them to leave, according to a police report.
Pavlekovich reported that Holleman resisted arrest and that Chambers began striking Foresman in the neck and head with her wooden cane. Foresman was diagnosed with a mild concussion, while Pavlekovich separated his shoulder while wrestling Holleman to the ground to handcuff him, the lawsuit contends.
The judge listened to testimony from both officers Tuesday and ruled that evidence showed Chambers did not directly struggle with Pavlekovich or injure him.
The battery charge involved Foresman's injury.
"I felt a bump on my head," Foresman testified. "I shook it off at first because I didn't know what it was. It was just a knock."
But then he felt a second and a third blow.
"That's when I was stunned," he said. "I knew I was hurting at that time."
Chambers, who is 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, testified that she acted out of self defense and feared Holleman would be killed.
"I have to protect my interests," Chambers said of Holleman. "If he's gone, I'm gone."
Holleman served 40 days in jail for the incident.
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Well will ya tell the boys to STOP fogging up the windows?????????????
I’m no hussy, I’m a hot babe with a new truck and my husband thinks it’s HIS!
.........as the thread goes silent.......
“fog up the windows”
“fog up the windows”
“fog up the windows”
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yup you got that right.:)
I am learning to do that as I am getting older.
Arrested for what - telling them to leave?
You want for me to come and help you wrestle the keys from his hands?
Can’t ya ping me before ya do it? Yea, I know, I know....my husband hates it when I ask that question too.
We are the only major corporation with an unlisted number.
For practice, all of our newbies are required to translate all of the works of Shakespeare into pig latin!
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Uh oh what did I get myself into?
Of course not. It wouldn’t go with my purple hat and purple lipstick if I did that.
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Darn tootin’.
I feel....sad. I thought I was your main problem client!!
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Oh boy,I would never be able to do that.;)
It’s OK. If you get that shade of blue JUST RIGHT...they all look simply lovely together!
What are you doing out in front of Brad’s Gramma’s and how much is she paying you to do it?
Works all sorts of wonderful things on all sorts of wonderful parts, doesn’t it?
:)
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