Saturday, March 07, 2015

GA: Woman found not guilty in Domestic case



Then, last summer, Wilkins shot Packer five times. Like him, she claimed self-defense in her trial for malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. On Wednesday morning, after deliberating for 11 hours over three days, a jury acquitted her, too.

As the court clerk read the verdict, Wilkins stared straight ahead, betraying little emotion.

Minutes later, smoking a cigarette outside the courthouse, seated in a wheelchair with a broken ankle, she said she had no idea from the beginning of the trial which way the 12 people deciding her case leaned.

"You couldn't ask for a better jury," she said. "Even if they had sent me off, they done their job."
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