Lawyer for Placerville grandmother calls husband’s killing an accident
By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee
The murder defense of Placerville grandmother Colleen Harris came down today to a drop of blood and a terrible accident.
“I’d like to talk to you about a drop of blood,” defense lawyer David Weiner began as laid out his closing argument that Colleen, 73, is not guilty of the brutal shotgun slaying of her husband, Robert Edward “Bob” Harris, 72, in their rustic home on Wilderness Court.
That drop of blood was found on the hand of Bob Harris in a gruesome crime scene in which the retired U.S. Forest Service supervisor was found dead in his marital bed Jan. 5, 2013 from a shotgun blast that violently exploded out his face.
Arguing that his client didn’t kill her husband, Weiner said the blood on Bob Harris’ hand underscored the defense’s argument that Bob was holding the shotgun and that blood spattered on his hand as it went off.
The prosecution has argued that Colleen Harris, a Placerville land surveyor known to extended family as “Grandma Cokie,” killed her husband in an act of premediated murder because she believed he had just made a phone call to his extramarital lover.
She was found guilty of first degree murder by the jury yesterday.
Will she confess now to all of the lies she told when she killed her other husband? What a sleazy murdering lying piece of debris that was let out once to kill again in a nearly identical way. Her attorney, the lying little winer, got her off the hook for a blatant murder she was guilty of before and he appears to have tried the same lies all over again. This time the jury was smart enough to see a murdering lying criminal in front of them and justice was served. Should have a lethal option in all first degree cases to apply real justice to murderers.