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Accused in lesbian axe-murder trial acquitted
Globe and Mail ^
| 6/5/09
Posted on 06/05/2009 12:57:42 PM PDT by pissant
Jury finds 24-year-old woman not guilty of first degree murder in death of her female lover's long-time boyfriend
Amid a torrent of emotion, a Toronto woman accused of using an axe to bludgeon to death her lesbian lover's possessive boyfriend walked free from a downtown courtroom yesterday afternoon, acquitted of first-degree murder.
The verdict from the seven-woman, five-man jury capped more than three days of tense deliberations.
Ashleigh Pechaluk, 24, and her parents embraced tearfully before stepping out into the bright sunshine to face a bank of microphones and television cameras.
Arrested the day of the murder, she spent more than two and a half years in custody.
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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: axemurderer; canada; lesbian
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Politically correct Canadian Justice?
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posted on
06/05/2009 12:57:42 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
2
posted on
06/05/2009 12:59:00 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: pissant
She was just trying to turn the boyfriend into a “split tail”.
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posted on
06/05/2009 12:59:04 PM PDT
by
dblshot
To: pissant
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posted on
06/05/2009 12:59:20 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
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posted on
06/05/2009 12:59:47 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant
They could make a movie, “So I Married an Axe Murderer, Part Two.”
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:00:11 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
To: Westbrook
But it will make a fine Made for TV movie on the Lifetime channel.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:00:42 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant
Was this an act of “empathy” by the jury for the member of a politically correct “victim group”, i.e., where identity trumps individual responsibility? I don’t know if that is the case here and if there was some real exculpatory evidence, but if so, then this is exactly the type of “justice” based on member of victim or oppressor groups that Sotomayor and Obama are pushing.
To: pissant
“...Idunno, why don’t you go aks that exboyfriend of yours?!”
To: pissant
> But it will make a fine Made for TV movie on the Lifetime channel.
I’m glad we don’t have TV.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:01:46 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Westbrook
Arrested the day of the murder, she spent more than two and a half years in custodyThe guy she mudered is STILL dead.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:01:47 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: pissant
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Unam Sanctam
Yes, the type of empathy that warrants a full blown DOJ investigation of the abortionist Tiller’s demise, but pulls the FBI off from investigating black muslim terrorists in the US.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:02:42 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant
Her first post-custody pleasure? Seafood, she said with a laugh.I would have guessed tacos, myself.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:02:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
To: pissant
Lezzy Borden took an axe...
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:02:59 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(I didn't think, I never dreamed, that I would be around to see it all come true-McCartney and Wings)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:02:59 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant
“But it will make a fine Made for TV movie on the Lifetime channel.”
Will Hillary Swank be available to star?
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:03:19 PM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: pissant
Read the article. She said she didn't do it and no physical evidence linked her to the crime. Her lover is also charged and about to go to trial - and the lover was the beneficiary of the life insurance.
Political correctness seems to have nothing to do with it.
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:03:31 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: dfwgator
Look at the size of that head!
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:03:41 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: I-ambush
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posted on
06/05/2009 1:05:07 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Truly Constitutional money isn't just backed by gold and silver- it IS gold and silver.)
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