Ok, so Tumblr Star Wars people. I need your help...love...advice...sympathy. I'm not sure. But here is the backstory. I ended up here because a earlier this year I received a death threat from a man that I prosecuted for a serious domestic (strangling and beating the crap out of his girlfriend). While the case was pending and during plea negotiations it became obvious to me that the defendant had some severe mental health issues. His defense counsel and I agreed that the defendant should complete an in-custody mental health treatment program with our state's department of corrections. The defendant agreed to this as well knowing he needed help.
Fast forward, the defendant enters the mental health program but soon refuses to cooperate and the facilitators send him into general population to protect the other inmates in the program.
Fast forward, the girlfriend he beat the shit out of recovers, finds someone new and gets a married.
Fast forward again he mails a creepy hand written death threat from the pen to my office in which he blames me for turning his now ex-girlfriend against him. (His exact words "You turned her against me!") He then threatens to kill me, my family, my children and send my severed head to my mother as soon as he gets out of prison.
Fast forward he is prosecuted federally for sending threatening communications through the mail. At this sentencing I say to him. "I turned her against you? You did that on your own." The federal judge then sentences him to three additional years in the pen with the order that he continue with his mental health treatment.
Fast forward one last time. The night after his sentencing my mom comes over and she insists that we watch Star Wars becuase they are my favorite movies and she knows it will make me feel better. She wants to watch RotS. (I'm not a big prequel fan, but it's cool. At the time I hadn't watched RotS in years.) Everything is great. My kids are in bed. I'm watching Star Wars with my mom, and then we hit the scene on Mustafar when Vader strangles Padme. Obi Wan exits the ship and Vader yells, "You turned her against me." To which Obi Wan calmly replies, "You did that on your own."
And guys, I freaked the fuck out. Like I had a PTSD meltdown in my front room. I couldn't finish the movie. I went upstsairs and hid in my bed next to my husband.
But someone that deranged is after me. Someone scary, who makes no sense, who is probably dealing with some pretty significant trauma himself wants me, and my whole family dead. And I'm not Obi Wan Kenobi. I'm a size 12 deputy DA with two kids and a mortgage who teaches ballet as a hobby.
But that scene is now seared in my mind. I can see Vader pacing back and forth, just like this defendant would pace outside of the courtroom. And Yes, we put in a home security system.
Anyway I don't know. Maybe one of you could like sketch me a piece of fan art to make me feel better? And I can teach you the difference between robbery, burglary and theft and answer weird legal questions as long as they have to do with criminal law.
Thanks for reading this post. And thanks for the awesome fan art and fics. I didn't know this place existed. And I love that we are all nerds.
