i o ooeeammnamne e ania aniiaie es ateresaraees ol d t ho n ies hn pics inss /. .. â€"_ * * d f Le 6eA ; | ty 2 l2l _ ) . _ _ es w e § g TV e 1 No4 _‘ y _‘ B e A i % whiL s P ,W;%m,f%ï¬w%ï¬ }34‘41 in H = ¢ noe patl C . d # * ol ; e 5 B e DL .0. OR nomiore 2e yiâ€" . C l Eo Ee > <‘T ‘7 s "t h moras 7 * is k s : l"' ._'.‘â€" + & * '- 3 Fr : ~J‘"~\.,> * '&;%‘“’éi ’. 3 '!'-e‘f ye. e :':V.’.- 2 P 34â€" y c rrug e« it a5 ,h’:_"_;‘;' ,_k dmiane.,... _ 44 ho ‘Cos ; ol . Te :o aâ€"~ e _:r.,‘v, ic s & kus j : + P t » A tearful farewell Daughter Tracey, right, hugs her mother, Jean Millar, as she is led to wating police car to take her to prison to begin serving her fourâ€"year sentence. Defence lawyer Michelle Fuerst looks on from left. tm " 4 * a | J Millar is found guilty of laughter by Picton j For the second time in three mind at the time of the shooting. jury. f years a jury has convicted Jean Led by her lawyer, Michelle In his final summation to the Millar of homicide. Fuerst, Mrs. Millar described her jury, Crownâ€" attorney _ Peter The 49â€"yearâ€"old former Forestâ€" life with Ralph Millar as one of Barnes told the jury that there ers Falls‘ woman was convieted of nearâ€"constant abuse, be. it physiâ€" was no evidence, apart from Mrs. â€" manslaughter Thursday morning cal, sexual, or psychological, Millar‘s testimony, that any fight | by an eightâ€"man, fourâ€"woman jury She told the court of repeated took place that evening before the in Picton, following a fiveâ€"week _ beatings, of being called names shooting. trial. and being belittled by her husâ€" He reminded the jury that unâ€" Mrs. Millar had been charged band. der crossâ€"examination from a with secondâ€"degree murder. His cruelty, she sai‘d, extended number of witnesses and from She was convicted on the same _ to his two sons and his daughter, police evidence that the reverse f charge in 1989 in Pembroke but _ 48 well as the farm animals. was true. won a new trial in a decision by She said there had been a great He said that the defendant‘s life the Court of Appeal. disagreement about her contmugd was a lie and that her defence was The charge stemmed from the theft of funds from the bank in an elaborate web of lies. ‘ August 18, 1987 shooting death of _ which she worked the evening priâ€" Miss Fuerst refused to comment her husband, OPP Const. Ralbh _ or to the murder, and that her on the verdict, saying that she f Millar, in the couple‘s Foresters _ busband threatened to kill her. preferred to not say anything Falls‘ home. Those thefts, court was told, while the matter is still before the ; were directed by her husband. courts. Mrs. Millar will be senâ€" â€" In the latest trial Mrs. Millar In addition to his original tenced in Picton on December 9 confessed to shooting her husband charge to the jury, Mr. Justice Ben 1992 by Mr. Justice Hurley. ‘ but she contended that she did so Hurley told the jury that before Crown attorney Peter Barnes | in selfâ€"defence, citing the battered Mrs. Millar could be convicted, it said that the trial offered judges woman‘s syndrome as the basis for must be satisfied, to the exclusion lawyers, police and public a lot to that defence. 7 of any reasonable doubt, that Mrs. learn about the battered woman Despite the expert testimony of Millar was not acting in selfâ€" syndrome. two psychiatrists, Dr. Frederick _ defence. He said that, fortunately, it‘s a 4 3 Shane and Dr. Graham Glancy, £ 5 rare phenomenon since few womâ€" _ the jury rejected the theory of selfâ€" If you conclude that she killed en kill men, detme Mr. Millar in selfâ€"defence, or Af The Crown has the option to The only basis for the manâ€" _ there is any reasonable doubt in _ appeal the verdict within 30 days slaughtéer conviction by the jury your minds as to whether she did and perhaps try a third attempt at > | would seem to be that it perceived or not, then in e,lyther case you finding Mrs. Millar guilty of murâ€" reasonable doubt as to her state of must acquit her," he told the der, s e w ie d ie o o o e o nc en en ie en e oo uen ipâ€"c. 0 ooopenmaaanmnnnnnmmmnnntnnnnmnanenennntninntinenneiiiimempommmmmmmmermmmnanmmmmesessll222222 0