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Oh dear, you pushed one of my buttons. I live in Memphis, where we got hourly media updates on Mary Winkler.
The problem with Mary's trial was that people are very credulous. She presented a case that she had been abused and people bought it, despite an earlier confession in which she stated that her husband had never abused her and she killed him because he got mad at her for falling asleep during a movie. The clincher was a pair of clear plastic platform shoes which she claimed her husband made her wear during sex. Because, you know, any man who likes kinky sex deserves to be shot in the back while he sleeps. The fact that she killed him the day before the bank was going to contact him and tell him his wife had blown their entire savings on a Nigerian scam was somehow less important than a claim of abuse which contradicted her own testimony and was substantiated by zero witnesses.
On the other hand, at least Tennessee requires mandatory jail time for drunk driving.
