"Hiccup girl" found guilty of murder

[davidn3600]

Several years ago this girl, Jennifer Mee, made national headlines because she had a condition where should could not stop hiccuping. The condition did eventually go away after more than a month.

But a few years later, she got herself into a lot of trouble.

Mee was 19 when she was arrested in October 2010. Police said she met Shannon Griffin on a social networking site, then lured him to a vacant home days later.

Authorities do not believe Mee or Griffin, a Wal-Mart employee who recently moved to Florida, knew each other prior to their online encounter.

Mee led Griffin around to the back, where two men -- Laron Raiford and Lamont Newton -- were armed and waiting, authorities said. Griffin died after being shot multiple times with a .38-caliber revolver.

All three suspects were arrested hours after Griffin's body was found. And all three were charged with first-degree murder, even Mee, although police indicated she didn't pull the trigger. Mee, Raiford and Newton had all been living together, according to police.

According to CNN affiliate Bay News 9, Raiford was sentenced to life in prison last month and Newton has yet to stand trial.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/justice/hiccup-girl-murder-verdict/index.html

[HappyMe]

1. Good grief!

At least she won't be luring anyone to their death any more.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Don't count on it

Chances are she can claim Battered-Spouse Syndrome

March 1999, Florida’s Supreme Court effectively granted Florida women the ability to rely upon battered spouse syndrome as a defense to killing their abuser. Prior to the court’s decision in Weiand v. State, 732 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. 1999), an abused woman’s ability to justifiably defend herself from a physically abusive husband or live-in boyfriend was no

http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNJournal01.nsf/76d28aa8f2ee03e185256aa9005d8d9a/eedd58c673ec712885256adb005d6306?OpenDocument

[HappyMe]

3. The guy she killed wasn't

a live in boyfriend or spouse.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Her boyfriend made her lure the victim

its been argued successfully before here in Calif

[HappyMe]

5. The article saws nothing about 'her boyfriend'

at all.
Even if that had been the case, it would have already come out at the trial.

[davidn3600]

6. That only works when the abuser is killed

Maybe it was applied differently in California, but that doesnt apply in Florida.

She admitted on a jailhouse phone call to her mother that she set the whole thing up. She never made any mention that her boyfriend made her do it.