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    Article....

    Sometimes you can't win for losing

    • Caught with lover, wife cries rape; husband shoots fleeing man
    • Grand jury charges woman with manslaughter
    • Texas law exonerates those who believe actions are justified at time
    • Wife also charged with making false report to police

    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.
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    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 1 April 2007, 08:16.
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  • #2
    1) the guy faced charges at all why?
    2) give her more then 20, personaly i say the chair.
    Juu nin to iro


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    • #3
      Cops followed their instincts developed under the old law where you had no castle doctrine rights. Citizens Grand Jury set 'em straight

      In much of the US the Grand Jury consists of up to 25 citizens called at random, and they are very powerful indeed. An oddity here in Michigan is that a one-man Grand Jury can be empaneled, usually a judge. There are also Federal Grand Juries.

      Neh...no planning, just bad judgement. Man-2, maybe 5-10. 20 would be for things like vehicular homicide unless it was while DUI. Then it could be murder-2.
      Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 1 April 2007, 09:10.
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      • #4
        The article is a bit confusing:

        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.
        which would imply that the husband was carrying and shot the guy then and there "in the act".

        I have no problems with that,

        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.
        This makes it sound like Darrell was blasting away at LaSalle, when he was no longer in a position to harm either one of them. (ie : fleeing for his life away from the ticked off husband )

        That I have some serious problems with...
        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Technoid View Post

          This makes it sound like Darrell was blasting away at LaSalle, when he was no longer in a position to harm either one of them. (ie : fleeing for his life away from the ticked off husband )

          That I have some serious problems with...

          Actually, maybe manslaughter *maybe*
          I say this after helping to glue many friends (male and female) back together after being raped, and a few of the perps, i would still happily track down and have a *chat* with.
          if the husband honestly believed she had been raped, there is an automatic bloodlust that while doesn't excuse the reaction, at least explains it.
          Juu nin to iro


          English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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