Posted on 06/03/2014 1:35:00 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
A Vermont woman who sneaked up behind a police officer while under arrest and allegedly tried to slit his throat with a knife was found not guilty of attempted murder.
Jennifer Berube, 40, was acquitted of attempted second-degree murder and a lesser charge of attempted aggravated assault on Friday by a jury in Rutland, a city in western Vermont about 60 miles south of Burlington.
Surveillance footage from inside the station house showed Berube grabbing Nguyen by the neck with a 2-inch blade in her hand before getting overpowered by several other officers.
Nguyen suffered a cut near his jugular vein and was treated at a hospital.
He has since recovered and was back on the job.
It took the 12-man jury less than two hours to acquit Berube.
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Burma Shave!
Both of them?
Until the handcuffs come off.
Cops just be pissed. Now they know how it feels.
Now thats funny!
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20140531/NEWS03/705319921
We need a Paul Harvey “now you know the rest of the story” explanation as to why this jury found this woman not guilty of attempting to murder a police officer despite a video of her attempting to murder a police officer.
I guess I could understand it if the cop had killed her dog, but the article still says she was videotaped attacking him in the throat with a knife. Her defense was that she was a drug addict and wasn’t thinking clearly...WTF,O?
Anti-Cop brigade here must be rejoicing.
I was thinking the same thing, payback is a bitch!
From what’s here, I’d vote to convict her. The jury must’ve had more that we don’t.
” Perhaps the tape also caught the police ignoring her husband hanging himself in the jail and refusing to check on him?”
The husband didn’t hang himself. Apparently, he backed out of their suicide pact.
Apparently it was the sob story: she was a happily married nurse with three children, she got addicted to painkillers, her marriage collapsed, she lost custody of her children, and wound up out on the street, doing things for heroin she never thought she would do. She could be your sister, your daughter, your aunt, yada, yada, yada.
not knowing particulars, it sounds ridiculous she’d NOT be charged with attempted murder. what the hell?!?
there are many actresses who’ve done this. i bet you’re thinking of winona ryder.
The cops aren’t going to look upon this too kindly. She needs to move out of the state.
She'll be dead of an OD soon, most likely.
Your going to blame the VICTIM for this?
How liberal of you.
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He never attempted suicide. She admits she imagined that.
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