OK, look, if you are going to argue Battered Wife Syndrome, you had better have a lot better case than this. Where is the proof? Why didn’t she try to leave him? Did she call the police about this abuse? Give me a break.
If she is acquitted, this case could be a terrible precedent. The only proof she has is her own account… an account which the nine-year old daughter fails to corroborate. If she is not convicted, this case would say “hey, it is ok to kill your husband, and you can get off, as long as your story is crazy enough and your lying skills are sufficient.”
Even if she were abused, why and how does she become the judge and jury over someone’s life? BWS is only appropriate in situations of continuing abuse where there is NO other recourse for the abused party. She, apparently, made no attempts to stop this abuse. I hope the jury sees through this smoke screen and convicts this woman.
I don’t think that they have enough for First Degree. I don’t see the pre-meditation. But, the facts speak to 2nd Degree.
The facts actually do speak to innocence. Did you not listen to the forensic psychologist or that part is not important or truth to you?
The lady had PTSD since she was 13 and was made worse by his brutality.
The only good thing about this that Matthew will never again abuse anyone and maybe his parents will get some help too. I see the same look in the mother in laws face as Mary’s….a battered woman but older and without PTSD. Surely something rang in true to her during Mary’s testimony.
There might be a divorce in the COC after this is over.
I hope for her sake she was telling the truth yesterday because if she wasnt god have mercy on her soul.
Everything Mary Winker said, and all of her actions (including keeping the abuse a total secret from everyone and covering up for her abuser)are classic behavior patterns of abused women. After 22 years in an abusive marriage, I finally did leave. In all of those years I told not a single person about what was happening. And I managed, for the most part, to shield my children from that knowledge. My parents, siblings and best friends were all completely shocked. They thought we had a happy marriage, and everyone thought he was such a “nice” guy. He was. He also happened to have some real problems that manifested themselves through dominance and abuse (both emotional and physical). Frankly, it sounds like what Mary went through was much worse than my own experience. I feel so sad for her when I read comments from people who obviously have little understanding of abusive relationships.