So they say when people talk about self-defense cases:
The first time Beatrice Ann Ibanez stabbed a boyfriend to death, in 1996, the charges were dropped due to her claims of self-defense.
The criminal justice system wasn’t as sympathetic to her Wednesday.
“I would have thought one dead body in your history would have kept you out of the courtroom,” state District Judge Sid Harle told the Von Ormy resident as he sentenced her to 30 years in prison for the September 2011 murder of Alfredo Ramirez, 46, then her boyfriend, who was stabbed in the heart.
The sentence was the maximum possible under a plea agreement Ibanez, 44, reached with prosecutors in January.
Immediately after both slayings, Ibanez told police she had been in an abusive relationship and was tired of being targeted.
She also was drinking heavily on both occasions, she acknowledged.
Every self-defense case is also a murder investigation. Like everything, no system is perfect. If she had shot them, this would be all over the “Gun Death” blogs…but it isn’t!
Looks like she ‘thought’ she could get away with it again…