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06-21-2006, 05:54 AM
Senior Citizen Love Tangle Turns Deadly
ATLANTA - A 79-year-old grandmother who used a cane to walk to her seat in the courtroom Tuesday was painted by prosecutors as so consumed by rage last year that she shot her ex-boyfriend four times in the head.
Lena Sims Driskell, wearing brown curls and costume jewelry in court, is charged with murdering her former beau, 85-year-old Herman Winslow, after their yearlong romance ended.
“She had been dismissed,” Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis said in opening statements. “She didn’t appreciate it. And her revenge was four to the head.”
Prosecutors said that’s when Driskell drew the .22-caliber pistol she had hidden behind her back, came within inches of Winslow, who was wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt, and fired, killing him.
When police arrived, Driskell was brandishing the antique handgun, wildly proclaiming, “I did it and I’d do it again.” Police said she waved the weapon at the officers before she was arrested.
Defense attorneys have argued that Driskell was denied her constitutional right to trial by a jury of her peers because legal age for exemption as a juror in Georgia is 70. No juror in the pool was older than 60.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13448825/
Even the senior citizens are turning violent....
ATLANTA - A 79-year-old grandmother who used a cane to walk to her seat in the courtroom Tuesday was painted by prosecutors as so consumed by rage last year that she shot her ex-boyfriend four times in the head.
Lena Sims Driskell, wearing brown curls and costume jewelry in court, is charged with murdering her former beau, 85-year-old Herman Winslow, after their yearlong romance ended.
“She had been dismissed,” Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis said in opening statements. “She didn’t appreciate it. And her revenge was four to the head.”
Prosecutors said that’s when Driskell drew the .22-caliber pistol she had hidden behind her back, came within inches of Winslow, who was wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt, and fired, killing him.
When police arrived, Driskell was brandishing the antique handgun, wildly proclaiming, “I did it and I’d do it again.” Police said she waved the weapon at the officers before she was arrested.
Defense attorneys have argued that Driskell was denied her constitutional right to trial by a jury of her peers because legal age for exemption as a juror in Georgia is 70. No juror in the pool was older than 60.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13448825/
Even the senior citizens are turning violent....