Barbara Sheehan gets 5 Years for Gun Charge

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http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Prison-stuns-wife-in-ex-cop-s-gun-killing-2263366.php">The Times Union reports on the sentencing and her reaction.

I'm not sure if we came to a consensus http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2011/10/woman-exonerated-in-ny-shooting.html">last time we talked about this one, so just in case I didn't make myself clear that time, here's my take on it. She's going to jail for the wrong reason. The District Attorney said it right.

"Barbara was not the victim in this case," Assistant District Attorney Debra Pomodore said. "Raymond, her husband, was the victim."

I'm all for women's rights. I'm the one who keeps linking to my http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2009/07/guns-and-women.html">"guns are bad news for women" post. But in this case, what she did is no different than all the other cases we read about in which someone snaps and uses a gun.

Temporary insanity might have worked, but not the battered wife defense. That's my take on it. What do you think?

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