Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Husband killers to get released

I have a reader who doubts that California is controlled by extreme leftist feminists. Yes, Gov. Brown signed leftist bills. Here is the latest:
Brenda Clubine is a platinum blonde with focused blue eyes and a no-nonsense demeanor.

She spent 26 years in prison for killing her husband. After enduring beatings and emergency room visits, she says, it finally ended in a locked motel room where he told her to give him her wedding rings.

"I said, 'Why?' He said, 'Because tomorrow they won't be able to identify your body without them,' " Clubine says.

She hit him in the head with a wine bottle, and he died of blunt force trauma. She got out of prison four years ago, but many women with stories similar to Clubine's are still behind bars.

Now, those women may have a chance at release. California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a bill to allow new evidence to be considered in the cases of women serving decades-long sentences for killing their abusive partners.
No, Clubine's story is not plausible. Dead bodies are identified by relatives and by dental records, not wedding rings. If he really wanted to kill her, he would kill her and remove the rings himself.

This feminist bill is a capitulation to demands to let husband-murderers out of prison. And they will not even have to register as sex offenders after they get out!

Husband-murderers are hard to convict in California because of this evidence code rule:
1107. (a) In a criminal action, expert testimony is admissible by either the prosecution or the defense regarding intimate partner battering and its effects, including the nature and effect of physical, emotional, or mental abuse on the beliefs, perceptions, or behavior of victims of domestic violence, except when offered against a criminal defendant to prove the occurrence of the act or acts of abuse which form the basis of the criminal charge.
So a bogus feminist psychologist can argue for the defense that the killer has battered wife syndrome, but the prosecution cannot offer such evidence against. The defense attorney then convinces the gullible jury that the poor abused woman had to kill her husband.

The stated purpose of this new law is to free the husband killers who were convicted before the above evidence rule was enacted.

These laws and expert testimony are contrary to common sense and established facts. Here is a new study:
Conventional wisdom suggests that women usually kill their spouses in self defence or as a final, desperate reaction to chronic battery, the burning-bed syndrome that is sometimes cited as a defence in murder trials. A new Canadian study, however, suggests that barely a quarter of husband-killers are victims of domestic abuse, less than half suffer from any identified psychological problem, and fewer still have had trouble with police.

The majority of the slayings – perpetrated by knife, gun and strangulation — appear generally unheralded, suggests the analysis of 20 years of Quebec homicide files.

“Women rarely gave a warning before killing their mates,” concluded the study, co-authored by Dr. Dominique Bourget, a forensic psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. “In the vast majority of cases of women who killed their mates, there were very few indicators that might have signalled the risk and helped predict the violent, lethal behaviour.” ...

“We’ve got a stereoptye about domestic violence … that the oppressor or perpetrator is the male and when female violence happens, it’s a reaction against male violence,” he said. “The stereotype is so strong, that when you look at the actual data, you’re shocked.”
Every female murderer in California just got a get-out-of-jail-free card. All she has to do is to invent some saga of abuse.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sooner or later the families of these dead husbands are going to start taking matters into their own hands. When the system no longer even pretends to provide justice people start to take revenge. Which already happens if you're part of a gang, if some gang members GF did this she'd be hunted down and killed like the dog she is. That attitude will leak over into what's left of middle America sooner or later.

Anonymous said...

so why just sit here and whine ineffectually about these stupid laws? Easy to bitch on the net. Clearly these "interests" are getting together and cobbling the legislation and getting it through the system. That's all I see here: sniveling.

Organize. Or like posted above vigilante justice is possible. Not a good thing in a supposedly civilized society.

Anonymous said...

Murder is murder, and anyone found guilty should serve prison time (unless it was a clear case of self-defense, etc.). There are plenty of taxpayer and privately-funded shelters for battered/abused women to go if they cannot endure their relationship with their husband. Hmm.... I wonder....are there shelters for abused/battered men as well? Barbara

Anonymous said...

George - Why do you think there is a need for the released women to register as sex offenders when they get out of prison? I thought they were in prison for murder.
Barbara

George said...

I favor keeping murderers in prison. Apparently I am outvoted by feminists.

Anonymous said...

George - I agree with you about keeping murderers in prison. But why do you seem to think that the female murderers should register as sex offenders when they get released, if the reason for their imprisonment was for murder only? Barbara

George said...

Barbara, are you a mindreader? Go back and read what I said.

Anonymous said...

Good question, Barbara, but he's not going to answer you. It's another dodge. You're supposed to be a mindreader or something.

Anonymous said...

This feminist bill is a capitulation to demands to let husband-murderers out of prison. And they will not even have to register as sex offenders after they get out!

See, George never actually said that he thinks that they should have to register as sex offenders when they get out, he just implied it.

Then maybe, if someone questions what he might have implied, they are the feminists that outvote him and don't favor keeping murderers in prison, but I don't know. I'm not a mindreader either.

I favor keeping murderers in prison. Apparently I am outvoted by feminists.

2:00 PM

George said...

That's right, I never said that murderers should have to register as sex offenders. I think that they should serve they sentences, and that this new law is too lenient towards women. Barbara alleged what I "seem to think", but it is not what I think at all.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, we're just left to wonder why George brought up why murders aren't require to register as sex offenders.