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Jurors found her Guilty of Murder, and yes, they also decided she acted with "sudden passion", thus changing the punishment phase of the trial. She could have been given as little as probation. The jury gave her 20 years and a $10,000.00 fine, and she will be eligible for parole in 10 years.
Her stepdaughter Lindsey, the victim's daughter, was in the car with Harris when she repeatedly ran him over. The 17 year old testified at trial that she attempted suicide 4 times in the months after her father's murder.
As for "bashing feminism" and thus making oneself look "weak"..........I only "bash" that which deserves it. This is not weakness, weakness is laying like a whipped dog while hateful fools spew lies and attempt to destroy others.
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I don't really see what this has do do with feminism but I suppose this is the kernal of some observer's outrage:
> It goes without saying that were the genders reversed nobody would be talking about infidelity as a justification for murder. Imagine a woman trapped in a loveless marriage with a jealous, potentially violent husband whom she believes may be cheating on her. She stays in the marriage because she fears she could be separated from her children should they divorce, and finds understanding, companionship and passion in a relationship with a coworker. Her husband finds out about the affair and goes on a violent, jealous rampage, slaughtering her in front of her daughter as the daughter begs him not to kill her mother.
There would be no tears or excuses proffered for the killer, and he would be just one more murderer sitting on Texas’ death row. The public would view the woman’s affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her. The mere mention of the fact that his wife had been cheating on him as an excuse for murder would be correctly denounced by feminists, who would also express outrage at the murderer’s "blame the victim" defense.
Listening to the public and media reaction to the Harris case one would imagine that infidelity were a vice owned exclusively by the male of the human species. In reality, research estimates that for every five unfaithful husbands, there are four unfaithful wives. According to the American Association of Blood Banks, of the nearly 300,000 cases evaluated each year in the United States, roughly 30% exclude the tested individual as the biological father of the children he thought were his. Even blood typing examinations taken decades ago showed that at a bare minimum 10% of the fathers who signed their babies' birth certificates were unknowingly claiming paternity of children who weren't theirs. <
http://mensightmagazine.com/Articles/Sacks/davidharris.htm
I suppose I see Gauge courtroom principles in action here, but if the murder were committed in the heat of passion, in some states in can be downgraded to heat of passion involuntary manslaughter. On rage oriented spousal killings lacking premeditated scheming and planning, the "heat of passion" defense is usually an effective one.
The bias against men in such cases is based on the realities that men are more violent and regularly do beat up on and brutalize women.
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