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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
here is a bit more background for you.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/04/15/9117581-sun.html
yeah - that may be what this is all about - the trial coming up may be the real perp’s trial
The gory crime scene yielded no physical evidence against her: no blood traces, no fingerprints, no DNA.
For an AXE murder, and she was the one who supposedly swung the axe?
And the other girl will rat her out.
No, she helped plan it.
“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.”
WHEN WILL WE BAN AXES? WHERE IS THE ANTI-AXE LOBBY?
Actually, my mistake. She was the axer.
Hey, let me axe u sumpin...
“Ashleigh Pechaluk hatched a plot to bludgeon her lesbian lover’s boyfriend to death so that the women could marry and have children, a prosecutor says.”
SO, THEY ARE NOT JUST MURDERERS, BUT MAGICIANS, TOO?
If you actually read the article it seems the case against the woman was completely circumstantial and lacked compelling evidence. Someone in the prosecutors office f ed up.
And we all go down to the Audobon Zoo/Where they all axe for you...
I'll take the jury's word on this, based on no physical evidence.
Except that little part about her telling coworkers about the plan ahead of time, ommitted from the article I posted. But found here.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/04/15/9117581-sun.html
She’s guilty
I looked to read comments at the site and it said, “Comments disabled due to legal concerns.” That is so very sad that Canada is PC run amok.
They were concerned that Mark Steyn would weigh in.
I reckon so
Well at least they are free to cross the southern border now and get married in New Humpshers.
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