Remember that preacher's wife who shot her husband while he was sleeping?

[Maddy McCall]

She just got sentenced to 270 days in a mental institution.

Mary Winkler was her name.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Shouldn't she be sentenced to stay until she's deemed well enough to leave?

Or do they just know she'll be better in 270 days?

[Adsos Letter]

2. Interesting...the insanity defense is notoiously difficult to pull off

unless you are truly insane. Even so...that's an amazingly light sentance. Be interesting to know the rest of the deatails. Fundie judge?

[RogueSpirit]

3. I wonder about that...

He was a preacher so there is a chance he was extremely dominating and controlling. I wonder if she was suffering emotional abuse that caused her to snap?

[Connonym]

5. I believe that's what I read about the case

that he was abusive and dominating. Maybe they feel it was temporary insanity?

[Maddy McCall]

4. Testimony of abuse of the kids.

She claimed that she was protecting her children.

I don't recall the type of abuse, though.

[Z_I_Peevey]

6. Is that the case in which she left the body in bed for over a year

and sealed off the room?

Seems a tad off level.

[Shell Beau]

7. Think that is a different deal!

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. Sorry. I'm not as plugged in to true crime stories

as I once was.

[Shell Beau]

11. I watch too much news, I tell ya!

[Deja Q]

9. How many days would Paris Hilton not get, cheat out of, then get all of them anyway?

:hide:

[JanMichael]

10. Steph has been reading about that

She said when it happened that she sounded like a battered wife that finally snapped.