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Something About Mary

Our colleagues across the aisle like to tie everything to Scooter Libby.  Here’s one. Mary Winkler shot her husband to death and gets less time than a guy who forgot who he said what to when in furtherance of a non-crime.  Dr. Helen rounds it up. Her question for the lawyers and criminologists:  

Since Mary Winkler’s charge was lessened to voluntary manslaughter, does this get registered in the homicide statistics as a female on male homicide or is it dropped from the stats altogether?

Put another way, has this crime just been scrubbed from the books? 

My question for the professionals, what is she, nuts or criminal? The choice of time of 60 days* in a mental health appears to be optional, as reported. Does this mean she’s only nuts if she wants to be? Now, if she’s nuts, why are they sending her to jail at all?  It may just be that they feel killing the father of her children has been a very traumatic experience for her that she’ll need some help getting over. 

* For those who like to compare entirely unrelated crimes and sentences, it’s noteworthy that Mary Winkler is being given the option to spend 25 percent time in treatment than Paris Hilton is serving in jail, just five days of which sent her around the bend.  Think about it.

Topics: crime

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:44 am on Saturday, June 9, 2007

5 Responses to “Something About Mary”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 9:56 am

   I get impatient when I read about women who say they don’t have the courage to leave an abusive relationship, which Mrs. Winkler claimed she was in. How does it take more courage to get up and walk out the door than it does to pick up a shotgun and kill your husband?

   And, as long as we’re comparing unrelated crimes, about the substitute teacher who almost got forty years for being unable to stop pop-up pr0n ads on her classroom computers.

2. theospark Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 10:05 am

   Free Scooter, I hope that Dubya pardons him when he leaves office. It was purely an anti-Bush comspiracy that got him convicted. Plame/Wilson are a pair of non-entities puffed up by their own self-importance.

3. vermontaigne Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 10:47 am

   Wait. Her husband was a man, right?
   What’s your beef, Jules?

4. JammieWearingFool Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 10:58 am

   Just think, if her name were Sandy, she’s get probation and a job in the next Clinton administration.

5. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am

   Playing the victim card seems to be the common meme for those who get light sentences for bad crimes; Berger seems to have pulled strings to get off so lightly, an exception to the rule. Scooter didn’t do either…..and the legal system failed him, IMHO, by not enforcing the rules objectively.

   I too hope that Bush pardons him. This will no doubt be met with howls of outrage from the lefties, but one only need point at the far more questionable pardons handed out by Bubba during his final hours in the White House.

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