{"id":9034,"date":"2010-03-04T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:01:19","slug":"cue-alanis-morisette-part-mmccclxxvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9034","title":{"rendered":"Cue Alanis Morisette, Part MMCCCLXXVII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic violence activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta\/woman-charged-with-killing-344266.html\">caps her hubby of five days:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Arelisha Bridges was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. She is scheduled for a preliminary hearing later this month on charges of felony murder, murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Bridges claimed she was unemployed. But records show she is a lobbyist for an organization called the National Declaration for Domestic Violence Order; its Web site says the group is pushing legislation to create a database of those convicted of sex crimes or domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Usually an accused felon will appear at a preliminary hearing a day later, but Bridges&#8217; hearing was within hours of the shooting death of Anthony Rankins. Officials said the court appearance was moved up because of the unusual circumstances around the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that Bridges was wearing a nightgown and a shower cap as she argued with Rankins on the sidewalk on North Avenue near West Peachtree Street around 10:45 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And moments later, witnesses said, they heard shots. They said she then &#8220;calmly walked away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A MARTA police officer stopped her as she was getting into her car, perhaps to return to her home nearby on Centennial Olympic Park Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atlanta police, Bridges told investigators that she and Rankins had been dating for a few months and were just married on Feb. 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out of this killing was Bush&#8217;s fault, or a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6676\">Michele Bachmann&#8217;s rhetoric<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic violence activist caps her hubby of five days: A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence. Arelisha Bridges was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. She is scheduled for a preliminary hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}