Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Fair & Balanced
Howling Latina will probably not be posting until the weekend; family matters.
Until we meet again, here's a fair and balanced look at the criminal justice sytem in America.
If you're a white, attractive preacher's wife and kill your husband, no problem. Before you can even read a few Bible passages on redemption, you're out of jail.
Winkler, 33, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 fatal shooting of her husband, Matthew, at the Selmer parsonage where the couple lived with their three young daughters.
She was given a three-year sentence June 8, but she was required to serve only 67 days in custody because of credit for time served, and because she had no previous criminal record.