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Well here are my thoughts;

As I am trying to equate this sentence for murder to that of Paris Hilton who violated probation by driving recklessly. 210 days for murdering your husband by shooting him in the back, compared to 45 days for a crime where people are very rarely sentenced to jail at all. (No car accident involved). Seems out of skew somehow. Envy maybe?

These are my thoughts.

Since OJ got away with murder, I really don't understand the law for very rich people. It seems to be different than for us folks!

Maybe its a California- Maryland difference of some kind.

hey "Dad" ...shootin him in the back ...the kids in adjacent rooms as their dad slept and shot at close range with a shotgun I believe it was ...ever seen the work of a shotgun??? ...and the abuse issue was on the strength of her word alone ...not a shred of evidence collaborating her abuse story!

Now she wants to regain custody of the children …wether the rev was a saint or not will never be known ...she committed an act that she didn’t have to and she can’t say alternatives were too hard to act on …I mean how reasonably gentle is it to blow someone away in their back as they sleep, swoop the kids up and make tracks

This one leaves me unable to accept as fair and “Dad”, you’re right on comparing’ this murder with the Paris Hylton deal and tryin’ to understand justice

Okay, I am mad as hell as I read all your 'skewed' comments ...

Let me ask you all this question ... have any of you been abused by your spouse to the point where to kill was just waiting to happen? Or where the torment was so great your mental state was shot to shi+? Based on your holier than thou responses I doubt any of you even have an inkling what this woman must have gone thru or even expereinced it .... Be lucky you havent had to deal with an abusive spouse ....

I was in this woman's shoes in my previous marriage, a long time ago and trust me shooting him in the back was probably something I would have done too ... You folks think that she should have divorced him or done something else ... trust me, when you have been in an abusive relationship, leaving it is just as difficult as living it everyday ... It infuriates me when I hear people say why didnt she leave or why didnt she divorce him ... well its not that easy .... Try it if you dare ....

Shame on you all for passing judgement on this woman .... you dont know what went on in the confines of their home and until you have all walked a mile in that woman's shoes, please stop judging her ... taking a person's life is wrong ... but what goes on in the mind of a tormented woman, is only something she will know .... not any of you ... I have been there and I have an inkling what she must be going thru ...

I hope she gets the help she needs to put her life back together again and I hope she gets her kids back from her loony in-laws ..... She has a lot to overcome .....

MaleC-You sound like a bitter bastard. Although I agree that some people (in any race/gender/economic status) get off easy and we need to fix that in the justice system, your postings are filled with personal agendas. Maybe you are an abuser yourself. Or maybe you have left many kids fatherless because it wouldn't be your fault if a woman "got pregnant". Funny what your profile says. I haven't seen any old school "morals and values". All I've seen is an old school you know what.

Mcshaky,
Not bitter, just not the sensitive faux gender you assume to represent.
No, I have not abandoned any child in my life, and how your self appointed faux psychiatric talent is way off.
If you do not see anti abortion and equal justice in my comment then you obviously have taken it way too personal and you should " clean your closet" before you start analyizing others.
Talk to your therapist

Beagle,
where were the kids when this happened /
Did they interview them to see if they seen or heard them fighting?
What did mommmy dearest say to them after she shot thier dad?
In 210 days they are going to be reunited and most likely she will end up killing them stateing another mental brealdown from her abusive(?) relationship

oh "chauvinist" I do believe in equal justice; just not your biased version. If disagreeing with you equates to taking it too personally, then clearly you have some ego issues. Other people have made gender comments on this site, and I haven't responded to them. It's just you that I have a problem with. And by the way, maybe you better learn how to spell "chauvinist". It's kind of pathetic to mispell your personal life statement. Let me guess, you did it on purpose...

Hear, hear McShakespeare ... how many were set on fire recently here in the local area with a so-called restraining order in place? Look what happened to Nicole Simpson .... Chavinist is just that ... a bitter Pig!

Domestic violence is still something that the community doesnt take seriously .. we hear things like ... yeah she must have pizzed him off, why didnt she leave, she could have just divorced ... like I've said before until you have walked a mile in this woman's shoes, dont judge her .... How may of you who are bshing this woman right now hve been actually abused by your spouse ... how many of you .... exaactly ... none of you .... As far as men been abused by their women .... tell them to leave, hey, go to the divorce court .... no, instead they get a gun or a can or kerosene and light up the scene ..... so this is the way the men take care of it huh?

If a woman takes care of business, she is a murderer, a man takes care of it, it becomes a crime of passion ..... BS!

Grndad1, I took a good look t wht I wrote the first time around and what I wrote came from experience, not from wtching TV ..... you can derive a lot of suppositions from watching TV! Try living it like most women do daily around the world .. being abused at the hands of someone who professes to love them one minute and then bashes their head thru the wall ....

For the longest time I thought it was my fault
for 2 years I put up with the physical abuse, trying to placate the SOB who I thought loved me and married ... from fractures, to a broken nose many times over .... I snapped after 2

does anybody remember the Menendez brothers out in calif. a few years ago ...murdered their parents and then put forth the defense of mental / sexual abuse but nothing to back up that ploy ...they were given life if I recall correctly ...same defense but a dramatically different result ...I had no sympathy for that defense then and it plays the same with me for this case

I am truly sorry if you have been the victim of abuse. However, in this case, I don't get the impression of an abused wife and I don't believe her story because she shot him in the back. I don't think she should get her kids back. She may be mentally ill or selfish or whatever, but I don't think he abused her.

And before we blame all men as abusers, I've seen situations where an unstable, angry woman has a personal agenda and decides to call authorities and say her husband has hit or abused her when he has not. I don't understand it except as a deranged or immature woman trying to hurt a man. It does happen, I've seen it.

If a woman is abused, I believe a good support network and discretion are needed to be sure she can go somewhere safely and have others ready to help her when she has the opportunity to slip away.