Posted on 02/14/2003 2:51:00 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:35:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I don't have any bedfellows, thank you very much.
There are a goodly number of women who are glad to know me.
So9
If a guy ran over his cheating wife with his screaming daughter in the passenger seat, the public would be howling for blood and the guy would be on death row. This affirmative action Texas-style sucks.
Somewhere in there God also said "Thou shalt not kill." And Jesus stopped a crowd from stoning an adulteress to death. Clara wouldn't have gotten along too good with either Jesus or God.
Bears repeating with some of the astounding excusism you hear on this thread.
The same is true about a lot of the cases where people murder their cheating spouses. I'm just saying that it's a FACT that adultery often leads to violence. That's why getting involved in adultery is S-T-U-P-I-D. I'm not excusing a murderer, just stating the facts. If I tell you to stay out of a rough part of town at night, and you go there and get shot, it's not excusing the shooter to say that you were stupid to go there. Dr. Harris was stupid to "go there."
That is the reason you need to be able to kill a man who needs killing.
As an example, there was the guy in Oklahoma a few years ago who had terrorised an entire town, but they couldn't make any realy serious case against him and no one was willing to testify to put him away for only a few years and face him when he came back.
Someone killed him.
On the main street of town.
No one saw a thing.
After years, no one still has seen a thing.
There are a lot of occasions when the law is inadequate.
What Ms. Harris needed was an "A" list atty. Houston has probably the top criminal bar in the country, on both sides. Her "B" list Atty was eaten alive by the prosecutor.
It simply proves to me that THEY believed that Clara didn't intend to kill David. That she loved him, and his death was an accident.
About the video
And I have looked at the video many times and I think that Clara drove the Mercedes around in circles "around" David. That she didn't run over him numerous times. I think that the testimony of an expert witness was that the back wheel killed him; when he was hit, he went up and over and under the back wheel.
I think that Lindsay's mother (David's exwife) is a money grubber who influenced Lindsay to testify the way she did. I don't think the video supports Lindsay's claim that Clara ran over David numerous times.
What was so confusing about the video, it shows the Mercedes running up and over several medians in the parking lot. The car is shown going up and down as it went over the curbs, but all the time "circling". I think that the video would have shown the car going in a straight line and acellerating -- if the driver was aiming at running over the body. What I saw was the car going around in circles at a consistent rate of speed. Then stopping abruptly.
That's why I think that Clara was circling her husband, hoping that he would get up and then she stopped and went to his side, when she came to her senses.
No doubt that Lindsay was more aware that her Dad was lying in the parking lot and Lindsay was screaming for Clara to "stop the car" -- not "stop running over him."
Correctly translated, the Commandment is "Though Shalt Not Do Murder"
This was a killing, it was not a murder.
That is the whole point.
This was a killing, not a murder.
Texans have traditionally punished murder with death. They have traditionally not punished killing at all. Harris' "B" list atty failed to make the case properly to the jury.
This was a man who needed killing and she killed him.
Really? 20 years for running over her husband multiple times and killing him? Seems like life would have been a little more fitting.
Anyone who is incapable of calling the act of running over someone three times a murder, is incapable of being taking seroiusly.
The only justifiable excuse for the intentional taking of another human's life is self defense.
If a guy ran over his cheating wife with his screaming daughter in the passenger seat, the public would be howling for blood and the guy would be on death row. This affirmative action Texas-style sucks.
You bet, they would have locked him up, and thrown away the key. No doubt.
As a woman to another woman, she WENT to the hotel KNOWING that this may be the situation! Why else was she there, except to confirm that her husband was cheating on her. It wasn't exactly a surprise. I'm not buying the sudden emotion theory. I'm sorry - no sympathy from this female!!
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