How're you and yours??
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.
Thoreau was a good writer, but a raving liberal too!
ROFLMBO!
Hi LEL
How’s the babe?
Glad you are properly stuned!
And here I was feeling inadequate because I haven’t read much Thoreau, and anything I did read, I forgot years ago. Turns out I’m just not into liberal trash. LOL
You didn’t miss much.
Hang on...There’s got to be a pig-latin generator somewhere on the internet...
I suppose I could put a copy of Thoreau’s works in the outhouse for light reading. Then if we didn’t like his works, we could use it as spare tissue. ;)
Good night all you crazy FReepers.
Got an early work day. I am self employed, and I have to watch myself every second!
With?
While I appreciate it, they can be mighty pesty at times. No offense, stephen.
But I had a moose check me out once.
Hussy.
With cobwebs! Where the heck did ya go? Chasing peepers with windex?
All week. Go for the all-week-cast-iron-effect.
Trust me on this.
It was a female moose. Guess that makes me a gay ole hussy, huh?
Ladies never tell.
Dare ya, Legs.
How're you and yours??
Sort of like having an in-house vacation, huh?
Old bat? OLD BAT?
Oh, nutcase, you have chosen the wrong thread to post that on....
Alright, I admit it. I never made it past the Bean Field.
I fell sleep.
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