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.
HUH Client?
What are you Talking about?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I vil not say a WORD!
Good heavens, BG. Don’t you close your blinds at night? What have you been doing that would make the peeping tom’s fog up your windows?
Not saying!
I’m not saying!
Nope.
I’m NOT saying.
You are my only PERSONAL CLIENT,but I have a large staff.
I thought Shakespeare WAS written in pig latin.
No KIDDING.
And 75% of them are STILL out front, fogging up the windows.
I think tomorrow night I’ll leave a squeegee out there & some Windex. Sheesh!
Hey, that’d be fun. Then we could go cruisin’! Maybe even take our canes along and see if we can’t get some wimpy cop to chase us. LOL
HA!
You and me. Hitting the road. Grey hair flying in the wind. (blue for me)....
Do you think we could make it on TV with the car chase? ;)
Do I want that tidy-bowl blue color or the bleu cheese kind of color? I know one thing, I don’t want my hair to match my veins. That’s just downright tacky.
Dang, I'm not sure. What shade are those veins?
Oo-tay ie-day, oo-tay leep-say, erchance-pay oo-tay ream-day, yee-ay, ere-thay’s eh-thay ub-ray! Or-fay at-whay reams-day ay-may ome-cay en-whay ee-way uffle-shay is-thay ortal-may oil-cay ust-may ive-gay s-uay ause-pay.
Am I in?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Oh yes, indeed. Some of those modern medical breakthroughs have been HUGE and SERIES! ;)
We’ll put in a call to Fox News! They LOVE a good car chase. We’ll be famous!
I got the FUNNIEST email today that would fit SO well with the subject at hand....
but I’m too lazy to go save the picture, do the html, and all that stuff....
LOL!
Sadly, after tonight, I think we just might be. (gulp)
I’ll tell Jim it’s your fault, K? ;)
Sounds to me like I’m not the ONLY hussy in the room. Client-shmiant....is THAT what they call it these days
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