Not Guilty by Reason of Ovaries
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NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF OVARIES
Michael D. Chase of Knoxville, Tennessee, is on trial in the death of his
18-month-old son, Mikey. The boy died of heat stroke after sitting in a
locked car for three hours on a hot August day.
Michael Chase says he did not know his son was in the back seat when he
drove to a business meeting. And his wife, Donna, says she was the one
who strapped the boy into the back seat. She isn't sure she told her
husband that the boy was in the car, which has dark-tinted windows.
Donna Chase is not charged with anything at all.
But Michael Chase faces up to five years in prison if convicted of
criminally negligent homicide.
There is something odd about the way prosecutors are handling the case,
which is being tried in Georgetown, Delaware. Donna Chase insisted that
she would not testify unless she was granted immunity from prosecution.
So prosecutors gave it to her.
But why would she need immunity? People who request it usually fear that
they might face charges without it. If Donna Chase demanded immunity,
wouldn't it indicate she had something to hide? Wouldn't prosecutors
think about charging her?
Why give immunity to the person who apparently has something to hide --
in order to go after a man who says he is innocent?
It looks like prosecutors made up their minds that the man automatically
has to be the guilty party, and will jump through any hoops to maintain
that view.
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And in another court case of interest, former church choir singer Lisa
Whedbee is headed for a year in a Knox County, Tennessee, detention
facility, followed by three years' probation. That's really not a very
long sentence. Her crime? Merely trying to have her husband killed.
Whedbee made some claims about being abused by her husband. But, as it
turned out, she had another reason for wanting him dead: a $1 million
life insurance policy on him, which she stood to collect.
Isn't it remarkable how many "abusive husbands" are kind enough to have
large insurance policies made out to their wives? Or an attractive estate
that she plans to inherit?
Indeed, having a life insurance policy seems to be one of the "warning
signs" that a man will be labeled an abuser -- after he's attacked.
Perhaps we ought to round up all the men who have their lives insured and
send them to therapy, because there's such a strong correlation between
having money that a wife can inherit and being accused of abuse once she
tries to bump him off.
Lisa Whedbee talked a lovesick admirer into trying to kill her husband,
Rob Whedbee, as he was sleeping. But Rob Whedbee survived the attack with
minor injuries. He divorced her. Smart move.
Michael Frazier, the man Lisa Whedbee conned into doing her dirty work,
was the choir director at the church where they met. Frazier also was a
reporter who profiled her in an award-winning 1993 Mother's Day story --
painting her as a heroic mom trying to raise a handicapped child.
As her henchman, he got a sentence four times longer than that of Lisa
Whedbee, the mastermind and instigator of the plot.
Michael Frazier still loves her. But now that his potential usefulness to
her is over with, she doesn't return his love. In fact, she just got
married -- to a different man who apparently doesn't believe or doesn't
mind that she tried to have one husband killed.
Michael Frazier serves as an example to all those Sir Galahads out there
who come blindly running to protect frail womanhood: you might think
you're going to get laid, but you end up getting screwed.
***** From Per's Manifesto
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