Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal
An Arizona woman who was charged with trying to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee daily for months has reportedly avoided jail time and has been ordered to spend three years on probation.
Melody Feliciano Johnson received her punishment this week after striking a plea deal with prosecutors that allowed her to plead guilty in April to two counts of adding a poison or harmful substance to food or drink, according to the Arizona news website azfamily.com.
She had initially been charged with attempted murder, a more serious felony. The reduced charges left her facing up to two years in prison on each count. But state court judge Javier Chon-Lopez instead opted for probation, ordering her to undergo a mental health evaluation, and requiring her to abstain from contacting her estranged husband unless it is in a legal context, such as their pending divorce, as azfamily.com noted.
Chon-Lopez took note of how the husband, Roby Johnson, did not want Feliciano Johnson to be imprisoned, CNN reported. The network said the couple are living together with their child while waiting for their divorce to be finalized.
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Perps a woman so they soften the words, same phenomenon as when a white teen breaks the law vs a black teen.
They ordered her to abstain from contacting her estranged husband with whom she is currently living, with their child. How, exactly?
If she was a he, he’d be locked up without a key already. Pure sexism.
Absolutely
I know that it’s a case of poisoning, but the way the headline is worded, it sounds like a case of smuggling.
“Are you carrying any bleach with you today, ma’am?”
“No, officer. Just my husband’s Folgers.”
If this is the case where he set up cameras to catch her doing it, and then also took multiple videos demonstrating the machine foaming up… I don’t even know what to say. There’s no fixing that type of behavior right? She’ll probably poison someone else now.
Don’t you have to drink a shitload of bleach to die?
