Would you have found this woman guilty??

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/seaman4e_20041204.htm

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In testimony directly contradicting his older brother's, Greg Seaman, 23, took the witness stand Friday in his mother's first-degree murder trial in Oakland County Circuit Court and told the jury his father was a violent man.

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"He was very hotheaded," Greg Seaman testified as his mother, Nancy Seaman, sat at the defense table and wiped her eyes. "I was adamant, telling her she had to get out of the house. She responded in her typical way. She said, 'I'm going to give him one more chance.' "


Greg Seaman's account of his family life in the spacious Tudor in Farmington Hills was dramatically different from that of his brother, Jeff, 25, who testified Tuesday as a witness against their mother.


Jeff Seaman painted his father as wonderful and giving, a baseball coach who loved kids, a patient man trying to leave an unhappy marriage and a jealous wife.
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Two brothers, two totally different stories. Nancy Seaman was found guilty of first degree murder the other day. One son, the one who defended his father, seemed like a case for Future Abusive Spouses of America. I really believe justice was not served in this case.

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. I responded to two spousal-murder cases very much like that one.

In an ideal world, I would have issued her a ticket for illegal discharge of a firearm within the village limits, or something. Alas, ours' is an imperfect world.

[noonwitch]

2. Yes, I've been following the case as it's a local story

She wasn't abused in a way that could justify murder. She went to Home Depot, bought the hatchet and killed him. She could have gone to a shelter instead, if she was truly being battered.

She and her husband had a contentious relationship, no doubt. It doesn't justify what she did. If it had happed in the course of a violent argument, he would have had defensive wounds.

[gtp1976]

3. yes.

meant to respond to the original. My bad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I've been following the story too, as I am in SE Michigan. I actually met

this woman and her husband, and yes he was abusive. As a previous battered woman, I can see why she did what she did. Sorry noonwitch.