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Reply With QuoteAdultery should be a crime? Hell no. Shooting the man should be a crime, as he was driving away at the time, so both of them should face charges. I certainly agree with her getting charged.
She should be charged and I hope she gets convicted. Adultery should be a punishable offense as well.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Darrell Roberson came home from a card game late one night to find his wife rolling around with another man in a pickup truck in the driveway.
Caught in the act with her lover, Tracy Denise Roberson -- thinking quickly, if not clearly -- cried rape, authorities say. Her husband pulled a gun and killed the other man with a shot to the head.
On Thursday, a grand jury handed up a manslaughter indictment -- against the wife, not the husband.
The grand jury declined to charge the husband with murder, the charge on which he was arrested by police.
"If I found somebody with my wife or with my kids in my house, there's no telling what I might do," said Juan Muniz, 33, who was having lunch Friday with one of his two small children at a restaurant in the middle-class suburban Dallas neighborhood where the Robersons lived. "I probably would have done the same thing."
Tracy Roberson, 35, could get two to 20 years in prison in the slaying of Devin LaSalle, a 32-year-old UPS employee.
Assistant District Attorney Sean Colston declined to comment on specifics of the case or the grand jury proceedings but said Texas law allows a defendant to claim justification if he has "a reasonable belief that his actions are necessary, even though what they believe at the time turns out not to be true."
Mark Osler, a Baylor University law school professor and a former federal prosecutor, said the grand jurors evidently put themselves in the husband's place: "I can see one of them saying, 'I would have shot the guy, too. I was just protecting my wife.' "
The December night before the shooting, Tracy Roberson sent LaSalle a text message that read in part, "Hi friend, come see me please! I need to feel your warm embrace!" according to court papers. LaSalle apparently agreed.
Darrell Roberson, a 38-year-old employee of a real estate firm, discovered the two, his wife clad in a robe and underwear.
When Tracy Roberson cried that she was being raped, LaSalle tried to drive away and her husband drew the gun he happened to be carrying and fired several shots at the truck, authorities said.
Darrell Roberson's attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.
His wife also was charged with making a false report to a police officer -- for allegedly saying she was raped -- and could get up to six months behind bars on that offense. It was not immediately clear whether she had a lawyer.
She had not been arrested as of Friday afternoon.
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Adultery should be a crime? Hell no. Shooting the man should be a crime, as he was driving away at the time, so both of them should face charges. I certainly agree with her getting charged.
Adulterers should be charged with perjury. What was in the wedding vow? That is a violation of a legal and binding contract.
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They should both go to jail, the women caused the husband to attack the man, but the husband overreacted. I see them both at fault, but the woman was more to blame with her lying about everything and causing everything.
Those who can't change become extinct.
The husband did what any husband would have done in those circumstances not knowing elsewise. His wife is an idiot and exercised poor judgement to say the least. Hopefully he will file for divorce if he hasn't already.
i agree 100% if i was in a situation like that id, kill him too, in a heartbeat.Originally Posted by Debbie
Exactly. He had no idea his wife was lying, he was protecting his wife, and in Texas, as proved by the precedents noted in the article, that is perfectly legal.
The wife should be castrated, no person like her should reproduce and pass on her genes! It's really sad that people can just indirectly kill people like that so they don't get it trouple.
"you have enemies, good. That means you stood up for something, sometime in your life"
It’s not the adultery that’s the punishable offence it was the wife’s claim of being raped when if fact she was a consenting participant. I do think the husband over reacted when he killed the guy, considering the fact that he was driving off, Although, I must admit that I would be sorely tempted to shoot someone I caught them in the act of raping my wife, even if he was fleeing the scene. In Texas I think that’s covered under the “He needed kill’n law”
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
LOL. Although I think it was legal to kill him...in Texas anyway.In Texas I think that’s covered under the “He needed kill’n law”
"you have enemies, good. That means you stood up for something, sometime in your life"
I agree that the wife is a low-down scumbag and is responsible for the person's death. However, shooting at a fleeing vehicle is questionable AT BEST for standard lethal force scenarios.
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Agreed. From what I've heard from our local cops in Arlington, TX they are not going to charge the husband..
From the article the wife was (regardless of her cries) not about to be nor being raped when the shots were fired - the vehicle was driving away.
So the husband needs to face some charge.
The wife? Well she is only facing the charges because of some of sort of mysognist view - i mean as told she yelled something at a moving vehicle.
There is more here than we are being told, because frankly if someone is shagging your wife in a truck and you have a gun, how does he get her out of the truck and into the cab and drive off before you start shooting?
Did he have to go into the house for the gun? What was happening to his wife whilst he was in the house? Either way, that ain't immediate danger.
Thats why I love living in America. And in a right to defence state. In Texas, he was within the law. And thats all that matters.
Its called Tourist Season. So why can't we shoot them?
In central and lower Alabama, in most cases would be justified in taking both the wife and her lover life.
I know what the law says, but a lot of what one does is part of his culture, and believed system.
In rural parts of the Southern USA we still live by the old code of Tribal, Cultural, Religious institutions.
Most likely one would get minor sentence, if that.
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From what I can tell the wife was in the car. So, if she was in the car (if), the husband would have believed it was rape and abduction.
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