Moonshine + guns = bad outcome

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Woman sentenced to 33 years in Virginia Beach shooting
By Duane Bourne
The Virginian-Pilot
© June 4, 2008
VIRGINIA BEACH

Marketta Jones was ordered to serve 33 years in prison on Wednesday for shooting a man who tried to steal a gun from her more than two years ago.

Circuit Judge William O'Brien affirmed the jury's recommendationafter a trial in February. Jones, 42, was convicted of aggravated malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the shooting of Casey McCook at the Witchduck Crescent apartments on Shaman Crescent.

The shooting occurred on Nov. 20, 2006 after Jones awoke from a night of bingeing on drugs and drinking moonshine.

Prosecutors said during the trial that Jones fired the 9 mm semiautomatic weapon at McCook's chest after he tried to steal the pistol to buy drugs.

McCook spent three weeks in a coma and suffered permanent brain damage and partial paralysis from his injuries.

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I wonder how much this had to do with moonshine and drugs verses that she maybe is just a nasty person that didn't like someone trying to steal from her.

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Too bad this didn't happen in Texas or she would have gotten off.

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Wow is that some bad writing. Had to read it 3 times to figure out what actually happened.

Wonder if she would have been convicted if she had not been high or stoned?