Doused with gasoline and put in jail for not wanting to be set on fire.....
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http://www.kctv5.com/news/21118999/detail.html
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A jury on Friday found John David Wilson guilty of assaulting his wife.Wilson's attorney described his client as a tortured soul who still blames himself for the tragic death of his little sister.
"He just never recovered from being an 11-year-old boy who runs away from his sister to talk to his mother before John Horton does what he does," said attorney Carl Cornwell.
Cornwell said his client still feels guilty for what happened to his sister, Lizbeth Wilson, who was kidnapped and killed in 1974 as she walked home alone from the swimming pool. Horton, a janitor at Shawnee Mission East, kidnapped and killed her and dumped the body in rural Lenexa.
"You can't live with that," Cornwell said. "You can't live with that."
In March of 2008, a jury convicted Horton of first-degree murder. Two months later, Wilson got into a fight with his wife. After he threatened to leave her and she doused his clothes with gasoline, Cornwell said Wilson defended himself against her by pushing and shoving her. Wilson said she fell against a cabinet and got cut.
Wilson and his wife had been married only six months before the incident. Cornwell said they both drank too much. He also said Wilson was so distraught that he tried to commit suicide with a box cutter.
"He did not want the publicity," said Cornwell. "He did not want to besmirch his sister's name, so he decided in his words to check out and he bled and bled but he didn't bleed enough."
A jury could have convicted Wilson on Friday for attempted murder, kidnapping and rape, but after looking at all the evidence, they decided to find him guilty of battery. He faces up to three-and-a-half years in prison. Wilson will be sentenced in November.
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regjoeschmo
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Lets make this simple for those who "cannot follow this story"...... The woman soaked the man in gasoline and when she approached him he pushed her away from him. She fell and got cut.....
Tell me what you think someone was going to do if they covered you in gasoline?? Would you want them anywhere near you??
Is this hard to understand because the woman is being violent, and the man had to defend himself?? Is that a hard pill to swallow??
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regjoeschmo
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read_noam_chomsky
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i agree with bombastinator, the article was poorly written and confusing. also, the headline doesnt make any sense. the article says "she doused his clothes with gasoline", and nobody was arrested for not wanting to be set on fire.
- 3 years ago
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read_noam_chomsky
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bombastinator
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That piece was not easy to follow. I read it twice and I still can't tell who did what to whom when.
- 3 years ago
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bombastinator
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anglcazn
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This double standard is seen everywhere. It appears in custody cases, domestic violent cases, etc.
The woman is not always to victim. Some men are enduring domestic violence from their partner. Yet, no one pays attention to them because of the mentality "How can a man subject himself to that? That just means he's not manly enough to defend himself against a woman."
- 3 years ago
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anglcazn
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J_Jammer [removed]
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Just because they are both not great people doesn't mean that the man is at fault when the woman clearly was being unnecessarily vile.
- 3 years ago
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shatteredmen
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I suppose he should have waited until she lit a match before defending himself?
I have seen hundreds of situations in which men have been arrested for defending themselves. Bottom line...due to the double standards imposed by the Violence Against Women Act, we have a right to defend our self against personal attack as long as we are not a man and the assailant is a woman!
- 3 years ago
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