Posted on 01/19/2008 9:26:12 AM PST by ninonitti
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. --A former Holyoke police officer has been sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for shooting her estranged wife's boyfriend. Tammy Walker pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including armed assault in a dwelling. Her attorney had requested a two to three year prison sentence. Walker was a former sergeant who'd been fired before the shooting after numerous problems on the job. Prosecutors said in December 2006, she took a gun and 43 rounds of ammunition into the Chicopee home of 52-year-old Rochester Johnson, who was seeing Walker's estranged wife, Kathleen Donoghue. The gun went off in a struggle, passing through Walker's hip into Johnson's abdomen. Johnson survived, but said in a court statement that he suffered extreme anxiety from the attack.
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“gender, race, and sexual orientation discrimination under Mass. Gen. Laws”
If she had been old as well she would have had a protected class BINGO.
It made my eyes cross. I had to check the thread, thinking it was one heck of a typo. Guess not.
Oy.
Fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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