Texas Wife Ordered to Pay $3.75 Million

[highwayman]

Let me see if I have the facts streight on this...
This woman had been convicted to 20 years in prison and lost the cival trial and was ordered to pay $3.75 mill...If she serves most if not all of her sentence that means she will be in her 60s when she is released....

Either she is independantly wealthy or will die in prison penniless...


http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/jan/19/011907880.html

HOUSTON (AP) - A woman who killed her cheating husband by mowing him down with her car in a jealous rage was ordered Friday to pay $3.75 million to her in-laws.

A jury awarded the sum in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against Clara Harris.

Harris, 48, repeatedly ran over her orthodontist husband, David, 44, with her Mercedes-Benz in 2002 in the parking lot of a suburban hotel after finding him there with his receptionist-turned-mistress. She was convicted of murder in 2003 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I recall this case. She should be thankful to be alive.

The money is a side point. It freezes her assets and makes her liable if/when she gets out. No one really expects the cash to be paid, but it limits her lawyer access.

 

[Leslie]

It's too bad that the civil suit thing doesn't happen to more criminals.

 

[Dave]

not enough money in it for the lawyers.