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 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.
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I think the grand jury did the right thing. They wouldn't be able to get a conviction anyway so why waste a bunch of taxpayer money on a trial?
But the article in USA Today (AP) was stealth editorializing that the guy should be charged with murder.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
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4 comments:
I agree that she's culpable.
but in most places "crimes of passion" are still crimes and its not ok to kill your wife/husband's lover.
I vote that they both get manslaughter charges. Not that voting matters.
I thought that was called a Texas Divorce..
after Sept. 1st he could have said he thought the guy was going to kill him and got away with it..
At last, we disagree. As far as the guy knew he walked up on his wife being raped. There is no way that a jury would convict him of manslaughter in Texas or Oklahoma.
We might give him an award for being a good shot, but that's about all.
good point, I didn't focus on the issue of protection somehow. saw it as an excuse, but you're right that it makes sense not to put him to trial: it wasn't simply a crime of passion, but one of threat. I was thinking in a cliche.
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