The murder trial of Myra Morton should be a good chance to employ the “Oppressed Muslim Woman” defense. Apparently Myra Morton’s husband was taking on a second wife, so Myra, the first wife, shot and killed him.
I’m sure she did it because she was hurt downtrodden, oppressed and miserable (in their million dollar home). I doubt the fact that she stood to get $6 million of her husband’s assets if he should be the victim of an unfortunate, um, “accident” had anything to do with it. When the trial comes, get ready for the waterworks….
Also, notice that the article does not mention the term “domestic violence.” When a woman murders her husband, it never is.
Slain Bigamist’s 1st Wife Faces Charges
By Kathy Matheson, Associated Press Writer
August 9, 2007
A woman killed her longtime husband hours before he was to leave on a trip to Morocco to try to impregnate his new second wife, prosecutors said in filing murder charges Thursday.
Myra Morton, 47, turned herself in Thursday to face murder charges in the death of Jereleigh Morton, also 47, who was shot in his bed early Sunday morning in his million-dollar home outside Philadelphia.
The killing happened just hours before Jereleigh Morton was to travel to Africa to try to conceive a baby with his second wife, whom he met on the Internet last year and married in March, prosecutors said.
Myra Morton had reluctantly agreed to the second marriage and even traveled to Morocco to sanction it under Islamic law, authorities have said.
On Sunday, she told police that an intruder had come into the bedroom and shot her husband. Authorities, though, found no signs of a break-in. He was shot twice in the head with his own gun, which had been kept in a relatively inaccessible place, authorities said.
“Myra Morton’s description of events is thoroughly inconsistent with the physical evidence found at the scene,” authorities wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.
Prosecutors charged Morton with first-degree murder, third-degree murder and related counts. (more…)
