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US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 79 points 2 years ago

Poisoned husband -daily for months-

Gets probation and no contact order.

Yo, what? When that husband or kid turns up dead down the line they are gunna be all shocked pikachu about it. At the very least she should have been ordered to an inpatient treatment facility and not just some wishy-washy mental health screening.

She actively, daily, tried for months to kill him. Probation shouldn’t be for that kind of premeditation. It should be for “oops I lost my temper” or “oops I wasn’t paying enough attention for a split second”, not this sort of planned out and executed multiply sort of thing.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Apparently the husband asked for her to not be imprisoned and the Judge took that into consideration.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 53 points 2 years ago

Yeah, if I’m being honest, I don’t care a lick about what someone who was being actively poisoned for months wants for their attempted murderer in this sort of incident. It shouldn’t even have been a remote consideration.

Dynamic like this, wouldn’t surprise me if he’s been worn down over the years and just accepts the situation.. I’m not saying I have any sort of insight here, but really bad calls all around either way.

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Domestic abused people often are manipulated to think THEY'RE the problem and they caused it.

That guy needs help. A seriously good therapist. But we don't work that way. He'd have to pay out of pocket because mental health is a joke.

[-] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

Husband is a fucking idiot. She tried to KILL YOU, YOU DIPSHIT flips desk

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

We don’t take rehabilitation seriously in our justice system. If we did, addicts wouldn’t be incarcerated.

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

They ordered her to abstain from contacting her estranged husband with whom she is currently living, with their child. How, exactly?

[-] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

If she was a he, he'd be locked up without a key already. Pure sexism.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Absolutely

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

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."

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

There was bleach in the percolator.

[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Don’t you have to drink a shitload of bleach to die?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Jim never had seconds of MY coffee..."

[-] homura1650@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a nobel prize for attempted chemistry?!?

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