don't cry rape, if you are with your lover.

armchair_warrior

Subject: don't cry rape, if you are with your lover.

and you husband is carrying a gun. super bad out come.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/03/texas.slaying.ap/index.html
Wife convicted after husband fatally shoots lover

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Texas woman who caused her lover's shooting death by falsely crying rape was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter.

Tracy Denise Roberson, 37, cried a bit when the verdict was announced. The punishment phase was set for Monday, and she faces two to 20 years in prison.

In late 2006, Darrell Roberson came home from a late-night card game to find his scantily clad wife with another man in a pickup truck in the driveway. Tracy Roberson was with her lover but cried rape, and her husband fired four shots into the truck as Devin LaSalle drove off, killing him.

Darrell Roberson initially was arrested, but a murder charge was later dropped and a grand jury indicted Tracy Roberson instead.

During her three-day trial, defense attorneys called no witnesses but blamed LaSalle's death on Darrell Roberson's jealousy and rage.

But prosecutors placed all the blame on Tracy Roberson, showing evidence of the affair with LaSalle, 32, and a text message in which she invited him to her house that evening. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

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caaahyoko

But the guy who actually shot him didn't get charged in the end?? They couldn't charge both the wife and the husband?

anonymous

He should have been charged as well. Who is he to take the law into his own hands? How about calling the cops? Not fair.

caaahyoko

The only thing I can think of is they can't charge two people with the same crime unless they're conspiring--which according to how they describe it, is not the case. I guess they thought the wife was more at fault?

daver

The story is missing details, and the laws are far different in TX than here. In TX, for instance, you can legally shoot someone that has broken into your home while they are fleeing. Or a rapist. Depending on the situation.

Additionally, I read a different account of this somewhere that said the wife was still in the car with the guy while she was yelling rape and he was trying to take off. Which certainly puts a different spin on it, if true.

shishkab

daver wrote: The story is missing details, and the laws are far different in TX than here. In TX, for instance, you can legally shoot someone that has broken into your home while they are fleeing. Or a rapist. Depending on the situation.

Additionally, I read a different account of this somewhere that said the wife was still in the car with the guy while she was yelling rape and he was trying to take off. Which certainly puts a different spin on it, if true.

i read that, too. if the husband thought his wife was being raped & then possibly kidnapped, and he shot the guy, i confess i wouldn't have convicted him if i were on a jury.

armchair_warrior

same where i wouldn't of convicted the dude if i was in the jury for shooting a rapist.

caaahyoko

armchair_warrior wrote: same where i wouldn't of convicted the dude if i was in the jury for shooting a rapist.

Not unless Sam Waterston/Jack McCoy gives his speech about not taking the law into your own hands.

armchair_warrior

mccoy can't sell me jack, but one of his ada's can.

lilbangladesh

Just to play Devil's advocate: Just because the woman had a relationship with the man doesn't necessarily mean that he wasn't raping her. Rape does happen within relationships, too. I had a friend who was repeatedly raped by her (now jailed and ex-) husband.

But it does read that she was crying wolf in this case. Still, Texas is one of those places that even if she was actually being raped, she probably would have been convicted anyway.