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Husband kills Wife's lover; Wife Charged.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/30/te....ap/index.html

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Darrell Roberson came home from a card game late one night to find his wife rolling around with another man in a pickup truck in the driveway.

Caught in the act with her lover, Tracy Denise Roberson -- thinking quickly, if not clearly -- cried rape, authorities say. Her husband pulled a gun and killed the other man with a shot to the head.

On Thursday, a grand jury handed up a manslaughter indictment -- against the wife, not the husband.

The grand jury declined to charge the husband with murder, the charge on which he was arrested by police.

"If I found somebody with my wife or with my kids in my house, there's no telling what I might do," said Juan Muniz, 33, who was having lunch Friday with one of his two small children at a restaurant in the middle-class suburban Dallas neighborhood where the Robersons lived. "I probably would have done the same thing."

Tracy Roberson, 35, could get two to 20 years in prison in the slaying of Devin LaSalle, a 32-year-old UPS employee.

Assistant District Attorney Sean Colston declined to comment on specifics of the case or the grand jury proceedings but said Texas law allows a defendant to claim justification if he has "a reasonable belief that his actions are necessary, even though what they believe at the time turns out not to be true."

Mark Osler, a Baylor University law school professor and a former federal prosecutor, said the grand jurors evidently put themselves in the husband's place: "I can see one of them saying, 'I would have shot the guy, too. I was just protecting my wife.' "

The December night before the shooting, Tracy Roberson sent LaSalle a text message that read in part, "Hi friend, come see me please! I need to feel your warm embrace!" according to court papers. LaSalle apparently agreed.

Darrell Roberson, a 38-year-old employee of a real estate firm, discovered the two, his wife clad in a robe and underwear.

When Tracy Roberson cried that she was being raped, LaSalle tried to drive away and her husband drew the gun he happened to be carrying and fired several shots at the truck, authorities said.

Darrell Roberson's attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.

His wife also was charged with making a false report to a police officer -- for allegedly saying she was raped -- and could get up to six months behind bars on that offense. It was not immediately clear whether she had a lawyer.

She had not been arrested as of Friday afternoon.

hahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhaha

I can't breath, I don't know where to fling my poo on this one.
Texans? Guns? Cheating? In a Truck?

oh man.

Edit:
and now my original link doesnt work, bah.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art..._but_wife.html

it´s true, there aren´t too many stereotypes that aren´t covered here. perhaps a charge of terrorism would be the icing on the cake?

For some reason, in all this cliche-ridden article, this is what stood out to me:

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her husband drew the gun he happened to be carrying

He happened to be carrying? As if it were somehow some passive act?

On a more serious note, I'm glad they charged the woman, though I feel that this man was going to be shot whether she cried rape or not.

Not surprising in Texas:

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Originally Posted by Daly & Wilson (1988)

Until 1974, it was the law in Texas (Texas Penal Code 1925, article 1220) that homicide is justifiable, i.e., not a criminal act, and therefore subject to no penalty whatever, “when committed by the husband upon the person of anyone taken in the act of adultery with the wife, providing the killing takes place before the parties to the act of adultery have separated.”

I especially like the "providing the killing takes place before the parties to the act of adultery have separated" part. How exactly was that determined?

Serves her right.

If she'd kept silent and the lover had been shot, she'd have been in the clear and her husband would have been locked up.

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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus

He happened to be carrying?

Texas.

sounds about right.

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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets

it´s true, there aren´t too many stereotypes that aren´t covered here. perhaps a charge of terrorism would be the icing on the cake?

Throw in a couple illegal emegrunts and I think we're there.

didnt willravel want to work as a lawyer?? i think he just got his first case!

You know, I've always heard this RUMOR that Texas has some sort of statute for designated Crimes of Passion that's referred to as The 8-Second Rule.

For example: you walk in on your old lady bangin' the mailman, and anything you do within a reasonable amount of time/the heat of the moment/roughly eight seconds is pardonable as temporary insanity by a reasonable man standard.

So, like, if you pick up a .357 and unload on the guy and/or your wife, you get a free pass. As soon as you pop the cylinder and reload, THEN it's murder.

Or if you pick up a ball bat and crush his skull two or three times, that's all good. 93 times is probably getting you sent to prison.

Has anyone ever heard of this, or is it completely bunk?

Wow echo5delta, that would be one crazy ass rule.

And if I were in the husbands position and just happened to be carrying my gun, I probably would of shot the man (and possibly the wife.... kidding) no matter what.

Ahh Texas

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Originally Posted by dlish

didnt willravel want to work as a lawyer?? i think he just got his first case!

I can defend the gun nut. Maybe dksuddeth can prosecute!

i´m aware of the possible existence of a similar law in germany where if someone insults you and you react within 1/2 a second like punching them in the head it´s considered a spontaneous, involuntary reaction and doesn´t warrant repercussion.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHA Glad to be reminded of this story.

Going down...

Texas doesn't like lying adulteresses.
Somehow I think this would have been handled differently in California.