In countersuit, beauty queen claims she's the 'real' victim
By Emanuella Grinberg, Court TVModified Freely By Memphis Steve as obvious parody
(Memphis Poo) A former alleged 'beauty queen' who convinced a mentally impaired female-dominated jury that she shot and killed her unarmed boyfriend in self-defense claims he subjected her to physical and mental abuse in a $2 million countersuit filed against the dead man's family. The countersuit is financed by the Lifetime Network which has requested permission to film the entire trial with Jennifer Lopez standing in for the real killer.
"Oh, this is gold," Lifetime producer Edna Schmegmastien said with obvious excitement. "We're gonna make a fortune off this if we play it right!"
Former Miss Savannah Sharron "Nicole" Redmond filed the claims in unrepentant response to the Shorter family's $10 million wrongful-death suit, alleging the acquitted murderer acted intentionally and maliciously when she shot her ex-boyfriend in a jealous rage in front of the home of his fiancee in 2003.
The suit and counter-suit recently associated with killers who are acquitted has lawyers throughout the United States positively drooling.
"We can make a fortune now that this whole 'double jeopardy' obstacle is gone! Endless lawsuits, here we come. This is SO GREAT!" attorney Jeffrey Buffett Soros ejaculated to reporters as he danced on the courthouse steps.
Redmond alleges in her countersuit that she acted "in reasonable fear for her precious diva life" when she fired her unregistered 44 caliber magnum assault weapon at the unarmed and helpless Shorter, whom she says abused her physically and verbally, placed her under surveillance and continually misled her during their four-year relationship.
"He one time said I looked fat in my jeans," she sputtered, fighting back tears. "And then this other time he slapped me on my ass. He was a monster!"
"Unfortunately for Ms. Redmond, the person she fell in love with and the person plaintiff Kevin Shorter really was were two entirely different persons," the suit claims, apparently indicating that she was sleeping with two different men at the same time. "As a matter of fact, one of his personalities was a white man."
A mostly black and female Georgia jury found Redmond not guilty of aggravated murder in March for the death of Shorter, 24, whom she ruthlessly blew away right in front of his fiancee.
In the two-week criminal trial, Chatham County prosecutors cast Redmond as a jilted lover, egotistical diva, and mad black woman who went to the home of Shorter's fiancee armed with an enormous gun and the intent to kill her on-again, off-again sex partner, after she found out about his engagement.
Redmond, who was crowned Miss Savannah, to Savannah's undying shame, did not deny she fired the shot that took Shorter's life three days later, because there were too many witnesses who saw her do it.
So instead, the psychotic high school teacher took a page right out of a Julia Roberts movie and told a panel of nine black women and three pathetic men that she acted in self-defense when she saw Shorter reach into his car for what she 'assumed' was a gun.
The panel also heard from Shorter's fiancee, Rachel Hall, who testified that he had an enormous penis and knew how to use it. She also testified that Redmond showed absolutely no sign of being in fear for her life, did not appear to be reacting to anything Shorter did, but instead just whipped out her gun and started blasting while screaming "if I can't have it, no one can!"
Redmond was initially charged with aggravated assault for shooting Shorter on Dec. 16, 2003 because he wasn't dead yet.
When Shorter, whose femoral artery was severed by the bullet, indicating she was aiming for his groin, died in the hospital three days later, Redmond was charged with murder.
The defense also suggested that the gunshot was nonfatal, might have been fired by an unknown white man hiding "on a grassy knoll," probably happened before she even got there, and highlighted that fact that medical personnel allegedly severed an artery in Shorter's chest that bled undetected for three days until someone noticed it just before he died.
"Oops," a hospital spokesman who wish to remain anonymous was quoted as saying.
A lawyer for the Shorter family said his clients wanted to clear their son's name and prevent Redmond from 'profiting off' the killing, which she fully intends to do now that Markie Post and an entourage of script writers are prowling around town.
"They want to make sure everybody hears about who Kevin Shorter really was because most of what the jury in the criminal trial heard came from a bad Farrah Fawcett movie," Jeffrey Lasky stated incorrectly (in fact it came from a bad Julia Roberts movie.) "Georgia law did not allow the DA to talk about Kevin's character or his life, but the civil case will only be about Kevin."
He said he also intended to present medical evidence to dispel suspicions that malpractice could have caused Shorter's death.
"It will play a significant role in making the jury understand that what killed Kevin was that self-serving, egotistical, fat, psychotic, it's-all-about-me, show-me-the-money, crack smokin' bitch, Nicole Redmond," Lasky exhorted. "You can never change the fact that, in a jealous rage, she pointed the gun, pulled the trigger and killed an unarmed man while he talked to his wife-to-be."
Redmond's lawyer, however, says his client firmly maintains the position she took in the criminal trial because it worked, she got away with it, and now she's going to get rich.
"This is a clear case of self-defense where Nicole Redmond was clearly the 'real' victim," defense lawyer Michael Schiavone said as he made quote marks in the air while saying 'real victim.' "We've always believed that and the jury fell for ... I mean, confirmed it."
"But this is a situation where the Shorter family brought this to court. She has moved on with her life and had hoped that everyone else involved could do the same," Schiavone said and then added "except, of course, Kevin, whom she blew away in a violent jealous tantrum 'cause she's a fucking psycho. Wait, don't write that down!"
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