Dominatrix not guilty in bondage death.

DEDHAM, Mass. - A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval torture device.

The jury in Norfolk Superior Court deliberated for eight hours over two days before finding Barbara Asher, 56, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and dismemberment.

During his closing argument, prosecutor Robert Nelson re-enacted the bondage session that allegedly killed Michael Lord, 53, of North Hampton, N.H., in July 2000.

Donning a leather mask and speaking to the jury through the zippered mouth, he said Lord flailed about and died while strapped to the rack in a makeshift “dungeon” in Asher’s Quincy condominium. But Asher did nothing to help him for fear authorities would find out about her business.

“She did nothing, nothing for five minutes,” Nelson said, his voice muffled through the mask.


http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=123653

that didn't involve sex, I doubt they would have prosecuted her. Five minutes doesn't seem like that long of a time, and I'm sure the prosecutor was probably even stretching that. I just bet his little puritan sensibilites were so offended he went forward with this bogus case.

You know, just in case he needs the warning.

;-)

So, the prosecutor donned a leather mask and made his closing argument.... Hmn, why do I think this mistress may have a new client?....

Bet he got her number before they left for the day.

"Then she summoned her boyfriend, who chopped up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker before they dumped it behind a restaurant in Augusta, Maine, Nelson said. His remains have never been found.

Prosecutors said Asher confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped, and police investigators who testified said they did not save their notes from the interrogation.

Asher’s lawyer, Stephanie Page, said there was also no DNA evidence recovered from the bathtub, and without a body there was no real evidence that Lord was even dead."

A body that was chopped up in a bathtub but left no evidence. A confession with no notes taken. A jury that called bullshit. Good on them.

i strongly doubt any of this happened except in the sick mind of a creative prosecutor

have some evidence next time you go to trial

:scared:

not too believable if you ask me, i bet the old fool will show up some day operating a dive shack in the caribbean or something