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Jeanette Sliwinski Was Insane? *Update*

October 23, 2007 by Morbid  

Filed under: Crime, Murder 

jeanettesliwinskiew0 Jeanette Sliwinski Was Insane? *Update*

Jeanette Sliwinski, 23, the bi-polar, alcoholic, suicidal, stripper, model, and overall nutcase, attempted to commit suicide by ramming her 2000 Ford Mustang into another car at 87 m.p.h back in 2005. The car she hit contained three friends on a lunch break waiting at a red light. Michael Dahlquist, 39, John Glick, 35, and Douglas Meis, 29, and were all killed on impact. Sliwinski decided to not break from her normal pattern of failure and did not kill herself as intended, but rather broke her ankle.

The trial has been underway, Sliwinski facing first-degree murder charges and possible life in prison. She has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder by reason of insanity and today, the defense presented a pyscologists, Dr. Orest Wasyliw, who tesitified that (surprise, surprise) Sliwinski truly was insane and could not understand the criminality of her actions. Luckily, under cross-examination, he also acknowledged that none of the doctors who saw Sliwinski before the crash diagnosed any problem more severe than depression and possibly alcoholism.

But the defense has five psychiatric experts lined up stating that Sliwinski was insane at the time of the crash. However, intent is not needed for murder. John Decker, a professor at DePaul University College of Law states “You really don’t need intent, in the narrow sense, for murder,” Decker said. “As long as the person has knowledge that there is a substantial probability that their conduct could bring about a death, that constitutes murder.”

Update: She got 8 years for killing three people

Cook County Circuit Judge Garritt Howard, who found Sliwinski guilty but mentally ill on reckless homicide charges Oct. 26, imposed an 8-year prison sentence. Sliwinski will only have to serve four years in prison if she stays out of trouble as she has for more than two years at Cook County Jail while awaiting trial.

Looks as if the “pretty-but-crazy” defense worked like a charm.

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  1. swivel
    9:04 pm on October 23rd, 2007

    She killed three karaoke dudes?  Innocent, I say.

    Must be a switch for her to be rear-ending someone else.

  2. skeptical
    1:16 pm on October 24th, 2007

    She's your typical brainless blonde whom cares nothing for anyone but herself. She obviously thinks she can get off on her looks. I say FRY her!

  3. elisa
    2:41 pm on October 24th, 2007

    i knew one of those "karaoke" dudes. and they wern't just "some friends"…they were loved by everyone who came in contact with them, and doug was a vibrant part of a great band called exo. 
    this woman, instead of running into a blockade, or off a cliff, ran into another car and murdered 3 other people. there is no excuse for that kind of wrecklessness.
    she must be locked away and think about all of the pain she has caused everyone, and of of the talent she ruined and the lives she cut short. 

  4. I love whores
    3:14 pm on October 24th, 2007

    I am curious as to what the religious think about this incident. If I was a God fearing man, I would be contemplating exactly what kind of message God was sending, when he decided to take three local musicians who wanted to live, over a crazy stripper who wanted to die.

  5. swivel
    9:16 pm on October 24th, 2007

    Brilliant comment, ILW.

  6. THINK
    6:14 pm on October 25th, 2007

    People, she is not saying she tried to kill herself, she is saying she was insane and lets face it 4 doctors have taken the stand to say she was.

  7. Morbid
    7:03 pm on October 25th, 2007

    THINK,

    You need to read more about the case before commenting. She specifically stated,

    “It didn’t work. I want to die. You don’t understand. I want to be dead.”

    She said this multiple times to the paramedics who were treating her and they testified to this in court.

  8. Kathy
    1:40 pm on October 26th, 2007

    If she really wanted to be dead, she would have shot herself or overdosed on something. She wanted attention. I guess flaunting her T&A wasn’t enough anymore.

  9. Morbid
    1:54 pm on October 26th, 2007

    Well, if attention is what she was after, she sure got it.

  10. Morbid
    11:41 am on November 28th, 2007

    Well, seems as if you don’t need money to get away with murder, you can also rely on having a nice rack.

  11. Teemu
    8:13 am on October 15th, 2008

    Well, she is out, I know this is an older thread but just wanted to let everyone know.

    http://cbs2chicago.com/northsuburbanbureau/jeanette.sliwinski.released.2.830932.html

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