A 31 year old New York City woman, Giuseppina Guidici, had an abusive husband. After Guidici's husband "held up a gun and threatened to kill her father", she shot and killed him. Sounds like another case of a scumbag wife beater getting what he deserved, doesn't it? Well not in the liberal utopia that is New York, where the rights dead scumbags are cherished more than those of the law-abiding.

This week, Guidici was sentenced to five years probation for second-degree manslaughter, reports WINS (emphasis mine).

The Queens District Attorney said both the prosecution and defense agreed that Giuseppina Guidici, 31, suffered from battered woman's syndrome.

Guidici "had been repeatedly physically abused and threatened by her husband throughout their violent marriage," District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. Brown said sentencing her to jail time "would not have been in the best interest of the couple's only child."

So the prosecuting attorney agreed that she was repeatedly physically abused and suffered from emotional distress, and that putting her in jail would be a tragedy; yet he still brought a case against her. I guess he wants to send a message to people who dare to defend their life. (And don't give me this "he didn't have a choice" bull shit. Prosecutors always have a choice, no matter what the law says.)

Guidici should just count her lucky stars that she didn't live in Brooklyn, where prosecutor Charles Hynes claims, "If you get caught with a gun in Brooklyn, you're going to do jail time." No matter what the circumstances.