Mariticidal Woman Distracting from Case with Transphobia

[Illuminatus Primus]

A retired NYPD sergeant shot dead by his wife was a "self-loathing" sexual deviant who liked transvestite hookers and wearing lingerie, the woman's lawyer said Wednesday.

Sgt. Raymond Sheehan, whose wife, Barbara, admitted pumping him full of bullets from his guns in their Howard Beach, Queens, home Feb. 18, was a "very sick man," lawyer Michael Dowd told reporters.

"Here was a person engaged in self-loathing, remorse and an Irish sense of guilt," Dowd said of the 49-year-old cop's alleged dalliances with "shemales."

"There's no question that his violence preceded any of his out-of-the-mainstream sexual activities. But these activities seem to have exacerbated to some degree what was going on. They seemed to increase and send him into a rage."

Dowd said he has "significant evidence" of Sheehan's dark side - including the "skimpy" lingerie set he forced his wife to watch him wear and the address of a transvestite brothel near Albany that was found in the GPS in his car.

A private investigator found the transvestite whom Sheehan visited upstate, shortly after pushing his wife out of the car and disappearing from a football game they were supposed to attend, Dowd said.

Dowd said he also knows of e-mails between the 20-year-veteran police officer - who retired in 2002 - and his transvestite consorts.

Dowd said he has been unable to get the e-mails because prosecutors have not turned over the full contents of Sheehan's hard drive.

Prosecutor Debra Pomodore said police gave her disks with the contents of Sheehan's computer.

She told Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman the disks were "gibberish" and she has been unable to "decipher it." Dowd said he needs the hard drive to prove Sheehan's twisted private life fueled his violent streak against his wife.

"We're not seeking this to defame him. I could care less about his sexual preferences," Dowd said.

"What we do care about is if you're doing this and coming back in a rage and taking it out on my client. Then it becomes material. We want that evidence."

Barbara Sheehan, 46, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The school secretary and mother of two used her husband's guns - a Glock and a .35-caliber pistol - to pump 11 rounds at his back.

This is some vicious transphobia shamelessly shoveled by her attorney to try and distract from her murder of her husband.

[Kitsune]

Um, .35 Caliber Pistol?

[KrauserKrauser]

From what I read, there is an indication of violence by the husband against the wife. If there is in fact evidence of this violence and a history of reported or documented abuse, the shotting may be in some way deemed defending herself against an abusive husband.

If, however, she is just claiming he abused her without anything but her say so and making claims of his sexual deviancy to justify killing him, she should fry. Extramarital affairs and fucked up but entirely legal sexual proclivities do not justify premeditated murder.

[chitoryu12]

Since they indicated that "there's no question that his violence preceded any of his out-of-the-mainstream sexual activities" and he pushed his wife out of a car, it's likely that he was killed in self-defense.

However, it's absolutely sickening that they try to bring in his sexual appetite in a court case that has nothing to do with it. It's no different than him going and screwing any other hooker, but all of a sudden, when they learn that he liked trannies, it's all "Gasp! Deviancy! Devil! Dark side!"

One problem I'm seeing is the apparent autopsy and use of weapons. I've never seen a domestic abuse case in which the defender shot her attacker 11 times in the back with TWO guns. Was she trying to dual-wield?

P.S. .35 caliber is used in single-shot hunting pistols, though I think it was just a .32 or .38 and the editor screwed up.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

The guy was rather more clearly a self-loathing homosexual; tranvestites, etc, are primarily more dedicated crossdressers. That said it's hardly necessarily true that it was self-defence even if there was violence involved. The justification for lethal force with a firearm is a lot higher than getting punched, say. Not enough information.

[Sriad]

I'd love to see something on this case that wasn't printed in a sensationalist rag transparently hellbent on assassinating a dead man's character.

Since they indicated that "there's no question that his violence preceded any of his out-of-the-mainstream sexual activities" and he pushed his wife out of a car, it's likely that he was killed in self-defense.

Back that truck up, Chitoryu. Every word in that article is unsubstantiated chaff thrown up by her defense attorneys except "Barbara Sheehan, 46, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The school secretary and mother of two used her husband's guns - a Glock and a .35-caliber pistol - to pump 11 rounds at his back."

[Knife]

Hmm, even if the affair and abuse are true, the 'details' of those are hardly needed nor hardly needed to be reported. Yeah, sounds like mud slinging with bigotry.

[chitoryu12]

I'd love to see something on this case that wasn't printed in a sensationalist rag transparently hellbent on assassinating a dead man's character.

Since they indicated that "there's no question that his violence preceded any of his out-of-the-mainstream sexual activities" and he pushed his wife out of a car, it's likely that he was killed in self-defense.

Back that truck up, Chitoryu. Every word in that article is unsubstantiated chaff thrown up by her defense attorneys except "Barbara Sheehan, 46, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The school secretary and mother of two used her husband's guns - a Glock and a .35-caliber pistol - to pump 11 rounds at his back."

Yeah, sorry. I actually realized how my post contradicted itself last night, but I never got a chance to get on a put in a ghetto edit.