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March 22, 2009 1:15 AM
In Full: A man's obsession may have led to his own death, but a jury shocks everyone with its astonishing decision. "48 Hours" correspondent Harold Dow reports.
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See all 41 Commentsfor those that do not know her personally she is guilt"
I know her personally and was there at the trial and I was one of the people who picked her up from the jail.
She is most certainly innocent and one of the most loving mothers and sweetest ladies you will ever meet.
Innocent as the day is long
GOD BLESS HER AND her family and all they do.
If this guy was so mentally ill and jealous than he would have killed his wife not himself.
When she talked about the guy she kissed, it was obvious there was more to it and if she was a man than all of the women defending her would say he was cheating on his wife. Double standard much.
The fact that he was murdered the day after he threatened to divorce her and take the children must have been the most coincidental "suicide", especially since he was asking for the divorce and NOT her.
The fact that she gets no jail time is amazing. All you married women who want to kill your husbands, just move to brownsville, Texas. Then all you get is 8 pm curfew.
all in the name of winning the case. However, our system of citizen juries and our criminal justice system is the best on earth and generally has withstood the test of time. Many other countries have modeled their criminal justice system after ours. In my opinion it is far better to allow a murderer to go free than it is to send an innocent person to prison for a crime they did not commit. What most citizens do not know is that the judge listens to all the facts along with the jury in the case and if the jury returns a guilty plea that isn't support by the evidence and our law the judge can over rule the verdict and order a new trial and this judge didn't when he should of. Facts: 1. There was no evidence connecting this woman to the crime. To prints on the gun and no blood splatter on the woman. 2. In order the convict this woman of murdering her husband the state must prove that she is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This means that the government must prove to the jury that there is no reasonable doubt in the mind of a reasonable person that the defendant is guilty of murdering her husband. The government failed to prove its case because the crime scene was contaminated. The hospital made a major mistake when they washed the husband's hands when the doctors and emergency room personal know that this man was said to be the victim of a self inflicted gun shot would and the police would need to test the man's hands for gun powder residue. The fact that the test wasn't performed on the dead husband's hands leaves reasonable doubt. The fact that the defendants hands were not tested leaves reasonable doubt. It appears to me that the jury found this woman guilty
based on popular opinion and not on the facts. Just because the marriage was on the brink of divorce doesn't prove the woman murdered her husband. Just because the woman is said to have cheated on her husband doesn't make her guilty. So what exactly was it that the jury used to convict this woman of first degree murder? The jury had no hard evidence convicted that prove this woman guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt. The government made the jury believe that this woman killed her husband because it appeared as though the gun had hit the floor and the murderer picked the gun up and placed the gun in her husband's hand. Does that prove she's guilty? No! Even if she did put the gun in her husband's hand doesn't prove she's guilty it just proves that she was afraid that she's be accused of murdering her husband if the gun wasn't found in his hand. If the gun wasn't in his hand she would be accused of killing him for sure so maybe she panicked and picked the gun up off the floor and laid it in his hand. Know on knows for sure and that's called reasonable doubt. Furthermore, the fact that a palm print was found on the gun that did not belong to the dead man or to his wife raises reasonable doubt. After researching this murder on the internet I have formed an opinion that the woman did kill her husband, however I would of found her not guilty if I had been one of the jurors because I would never convict a person of murder based on my opinion when the evidence presented raised reasonable doubt. In closing let me say that my husband is a police crime scene investigator and he told me about a case he had last week where a man committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a 9 mm hand gun. You want to know where the gun landed. The gun landed in the man's pocket, believe it or not. In closing I'd like to say that I feel it's very unfair that this woman had her nursing license revoked because it's illegal in this country to punish a person twice for the same crime and by revoking her license they left this woman without a job to support her kids.
Answers: she was looking for BIG trouble ... and she triggered it from the second she told him .... her husband immediately called upon lawyers to settle the issue legaly...
If she was unhappy about her marriage (for whatever reason) Why didnīt she seek somer kind of help (family therapy,divorce, etc.) instead of fleeing with her husband and children from city to city.
Maybe she did not seek help because she felt guilty of inevitably and naturaly having to get involved with men.
She blames her husband for all her troubles buty iut is obvious she looked for BIG TROUBLE.
I suggest she should seek help at Neurotics Anonymous or Codependents Anonymous if she wants to look inwards.
She definitely needs profesional help !!!
She is a danger to herself and others unless she seeks help ... she KNOWS she pulled the trigger to BIG TROUBLE the moment the told her husband about another nice guy in her life ... THEIR LIFE !!!
Your Ad Rotator element at the right of your flash player is conflicting with the video when it pauses for a commercial; this causes the video to freeze up and never pass this point. I think the problem is the Chevy ad that goes up when Intel is in the commercial. Anyway for viewers who find the video freezing up: the work around is to look at the white bar under the flash screen and move it a little forward (drag it to the right a little with the mouse; click on it, drag to right) so it skips the commercial, then the video will continue. I found this out after playing the video a zillion times and having it freeze up on me so I couldn't see the the conclusion... very frustrating indeed!
I DO NOT FEEL THAT TRACY KILLED HER HUSBAND. I THINK THIS WAS HIS WAY OF GETTING THE "LAST LAUGH" IF YOU WILL ON HER, BECAUSE HE HAD CAREFULLY ORCHESTED HIS SUCIDE PLAN TO MAKE IT LOOK AS IF TRACY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIS DEATH. WHICH SHE DIDN'T BECAUSE THERE WASN'T NEVER ANY EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT SHE DID.
TRACY STAY STONG IN YOUR FAITH & IN YOUR FAMILY.
But then again, if her husband committed suicide, why would he use a pillow to shoot himself? Also, I'm not sure where the bullet entered. I think he was shot somewhere in the forehead area, above the left eye. Pretty awkward place to shoot himself, unless he was so angry and so spiteful to his wife that he set up his own suicide to look like she did it. She would rot in jail and never touch another man again. I suppose it's possible... I'm torn. There's reasonable doubt here.
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