Posted on 06/21/2007 4:18:22 PM PDT by LouAvul
SELMER, Tenn. - A woman convicted in the shooting death of her preacher husband was moved from a county jail to a mental health facility, officials said Thursday.
The judge approved the move for Mary Winkler on Wednesday, said Sue Allison, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts. The name and location of the facility were not disclosed.
Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her Church of Christ minister husband, Matthew, in the Selmer parsonage where the family lived.
She was sentenced June 8 to three years, but she will be eligible for probation after serving 210 days and got credit for the 143 days she already spent in jail. That left 67 days and the judge ruled that 60 of those days could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment.
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Did you leave out a word or something? I am not following your point.
It’s called sarcasm.
The statemnet made no sense.
It’s called “a double standard.” Kill a Christian, get out of jail free, kill a Mohammadan, get a long jail sentence.
OK. I get it. Long day I suppose. Thanks.
You gotta be jerking my chain! 3 years for shooting someone in the back and leaving town AFTER you destroyed your familie’s finances via internet schemes?
Sorry, not just someone.... your husband, the father of your children.
Beam me up.
This is more of a problem of courts favoring women when they murder their husband. You can bet that if this was a man who shot his wife and mother of his kids, he would probably get life or get fried - in fact I would cheer for it. This is the result of years of back-assward feminism. When a woman shoots her husbabd, the first thought is ....I wonder what he did to make her do it.
I am sure God will have a few words with her.
Very interesting comment about the fact that they went easy on her because she killed a Christian, I hadn’t considered that. I guess it was extra ok because she shot a preacher. Good observation. Things are getting real scary in this world.
True.
A few years ago I posed this question to a guy friend:
If a man cheats on his wife, he’s a b*st*rd.
If a woman cheats on her husband, he’s a b*st*rd.
If she catches him in bed with another woman and she kills him, he’s a b*st*rd.
If he catches her in bed with another man and beats her....he’s still a b*st*rd.
WHY? And don’t you think there is something wrong with that?
He had no answer.
If he had no answer to that, he must not have been in many relationships.
I think he was more shocked that I thought it was a problem.... this was an older man that I asked.
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