Md. woman gets 5 years for bridal veil attack
Nov 19 2010
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A Maryland woman is going to prison for five (5) long and arduous years and for what? What dastardly crime could she have committed to merit a sentence usually reserved for hardened felons, armed robbery, aggravated assault and the like. Melissa Wagaman committed the heinous crime of breaking into her neighbor's house wearing nothing but a bridal skirt and veil.
File photo - may not be the actual woman
Maybe a six months suspended sentence for indecent exposure, or deferred adjudication; but a hardened, humorless, ball-breaking Maryland judge heaped five years of living hell on the shoulders of the 33 year-old woman, time torn from the prime years of her life, for combining the wrong cold medicine with a little bit of marijuana. The mixture caused Ms. Wagaman to hallucinate, imagine wedding bells and to try to rescue her mother from her neighbor's basement where Wagaman believed she had been locked up.
Sure, maybe Wagaman deserves to be punished for her outrageous antics while stoned out of her mind, but five (5) years? The judge is the real felon in this case.
An equally felonious jury, inflamed by a prosecutor who charged Wagaman with everything short of being responsible for the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, convicted Wagaman of second-degree assault, fourth-degree burglary and reckless endangerment for the February incident that slightly injured Aaron Parrott.
Wagaman broke a dining room window with her own head, causing shattered glass to cut an artery in her neighbor's arm, for which she apologized during the hearing.
The judge threw Wagaman under the bus.
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