Iraqi Immigrant On Trial In Phoenix For Murdering Daughter For Becoming Too Westernized

Multiculturalism, I love it. Where would we be without awesome ideas like fathers murdering their children?

I don't understand that defense -- if I'm understanding the implications here, they seem to be claiming that the father did intend to kill his daughter, but killing the other woman he ran over was just an accident:

20-year-old Noor Almaleki was run over in the middle of a Peoria parking lot back in 2009. Prosecutors say her dad intentionally drove into his daughter, and another woman, and sped off. The defense said Monday Faleh Almaleki intended only to spit out the window at the other woman as he drove by, but miscalculated.

Probably I'm overreading a poorly-written article, and they mean the man didn't intend to run anyone over, just to spit at the other woman.

Counting against this claim is a witness, who testified the man revved his engines before plowing over the women (horribly mangling them), and then stopped to look down at the carnage. Asked about how the man's face looked when he looked out the window, the witness said, "Angry." Probably, I guess, it was all an accident, but he was angry at the women for scratching his undercoating.

posted by Ace at 11:34 AM

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