You mean I coulda been outa jail by now?

Deidra Lane served about 6 years

Associated Press


RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina woman convicted of fatally shooting her football-player husband is scheduled to be released from prison.
Department of Correction spokesman George Dudley said Monday that Deidra Lane is expected to leave the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The 33-year-old Lane served about six years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the 2000 death of her estranged husband, Fred Lane. He played with the Carolina Panthers for three years and had been traded to the Indianapolis Colts before his death.

During her trial in 2003, prosecutors described Lane as an abusive woman who killed her husband for insurance money. Defense attorneys described a battered wife who killed in self defense

 

She actually did the killing and only served 6 years. Rae Carruth paid someone and is still in jail. That's just messed up.

 

manslaughter vs pre meditated murder

 

Lane's wife got an easy sentence. She set it up more than Carruth. She claimed domestic violence, stayed in the situation, made sure the insurance policy was sound, then killed the dude and claimed self defense. She killed the dude with her own hands. She didn't hire someone and distance herself from the situation. She took 100% control of her actions and took another life.

Carruth paid a guy that took 100% control of his actions and choose to kill someone for money. Carruth has no blood on his hands and really didn't do anything more than alot of people think about doing.

Both of them should be in jail for life. Six years is a joke.

 

Maybe, but they obviously couldn't prove it. She was just smarter than Carruth...they deserve each other

 

Didn't this crazy bitch rob a bank while awaiting trial too? How the fuck is she out already? The laws in this country are a fucking joke. I could do six years for having a couple of pounds of a plant.

 

Fred Lane's Widow Pleads Guilty to Death

Posted on: Thursday, 14 August 2003, 06:00 CDT

The widow of NFL running back Fred Lane pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for shooting him to death three years ago as he walked into his home.
Deidra Lane could get more than 19 years in prison. Sentencing was set for an unspecified date in September.
"I would like to apologize to the Lane family," a weeping Lane, 28, said at the hearing Thursday. "I'm sorry for the loss and the pain this has caused." Authorities said she ambushed her 24-year-old husband at their Charlotte home in July 6, 2000, hoping to cash a $5 million life insurance policy. Lane and her attorney had said she was a battered wife who acted in self-defense.



Deidra Lane was charged with murder a month later and was free on $100,000 bond until she was arrested in an unrelated bank case.
She pleaded guilty last October to a federal conspiracy charge for a 1998 scheme in which she and a teller stole more than $41,200 from a bank and was sentenced to the minimum four months in prison. She has been in jail ever since.
Fred Lane, a 5-foot-10, 205-pound running back, was the Carolina Panthers' second-leading all-time rusher, finishing with 2,001 yards before he was traded to the Indianapolis Colts in April 2000.
Prosecutors said Deidra Lane had waited for her husband to get home from visiting relatives in Tennessee, then shot him in the chest with a shotgun, walked through the blood and shot him again in the back of the head.
Police found his body just inside the front door. His packed bag lay nearby, and his keys were in the door lock.
The defense said Lane was a battered wife who killed in self-defense. They said that while Lane was nine months pregnant, Fred Lane rammed his wife's head into a wall and threw her down a flight of steps.
"He just got shot because he wouldn't leave me alone," a sobbing and screaming Lane told a 911 operator the day of the shooting. "I kept telling him to stop." The football player's father, Fred Lane Sr., said shortly after the killing that his son and daughter-in-law were having problems.