The legal defense of battered ex-wife syndrome. Be afraid, gentlemen. Be very afraid:
A 50-year-old woman on Monday pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge for the death of her ex-husband in 2002.Gloria Fierro agreed to a guilty plea of second-degree murder with a firearm, reduced from first-degree murder, in the death of attorney Henry Fierro, who was found shot to death in his home in July 2002.
Police said Gloria Fierro confessed to killing her ex-husband. Defense attorneys claimed she suffered from battered wife syndrome.
She'd originally denied going to her ex-husband's house and shooting him in the head while he slept. Her story changed, however, when a bird vendor remembered her buying a white pigeon from him and saying she was going over to her ex-husband's house to "perform a ritual." It was a bad night for both man and pigeon.
Posted by floridacracker at October 30, 2006 05:58 PM