Joe Caverly wrote:
> From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dearjoe
>
> From St Thomas Times-Journal, Page 20, Tuesday, January 25, 2005
>
> PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - An elementary school teacher who hacked her
> husband to death with a hatchet was sentenced Monday to life in
prison
> without the possibility of parole.
>
> Before she was sentenced, Nancy Seaman read a statement in which she
> called the jury's guilty verdict "a miscarriage of justice" and a
> "tragic mistake". She said she would appeal.

Oh please.  If you'd done that in Texas, they would put you down like a
stray dog.

> Prosecutors said Seaman argued with her husband, Robert, last
Mother's
> Day, went to Home Depot to buy a hatchet, returned to their home and
> killed him with it. Police found Robert Seaman's body in his wife's
> sport utility vehicle a few days later.

So, an axe murderer went to prison for life.  How is that a
"miscarriage of justice," as claimed by the defendant?  What excuse did
she come up with?  What accusations did she throw at the now silent
victim?  Was this another case of he-said-she-said-he's-dead?



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