Henry Jacobs, 38, said he asked Vanessa Bailey, 26, his fiancée of four years, why she lied about talking to another man on a cell phone while he was with her at her mom's apartment in Flatbush.
"I don't know, man. I went out of my mind! I hit her. I saw a knife was somewhere on the couch.... I remember stabbing her once," he said.
"It came straight from my heart! I'm not a violent person. I'm a very loving person," he continued, under questioning from his lawyer, Sam Carliner.
Jacobs faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted of intentionally killing Bailey on Oct. 17, 2004. Jacobs wants a jury to acquit him or find him guilty of a lesser crime for acting out of "extreme emotional disturbance."
While Jacobs testified he stabbed the attractive beautician only once, authorities said he knifed her five times."
Now here's the deal. His lawyer is doing the right thing because this assuredly hand-picked-from-the-lowest-of-the-low jury is in no way, shape, or form going to convict him of 1st degree murder. He didn't use a, gasp, gun, so that means he's not an animal, just a poor immigrant searching for the dream, who made one silly little mistake.
I'll keep my eye on this, but he'll get 6-10 years TOPS, and be back on the streets in 4.
2 comments:
Well, she did speak to him with disrespect.
True. But it was only the first time, so a decent enough beating could have sufficed.
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