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Probative or Prejudicial? Woman Charged With Road Rage Killing of Sailor Has History of Restraining Orders From Ex-Boyfriends

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The shocking death of U.S. Sailor Zach Buob, 39, has become even more disturbing with the disclosure that the other driver, Darla Jackson, has been repeatedly hit with restraining orders, including one from a boyfriend who said that she said that she would run him over with her car.

293D6BF400000578-0-image-a-7_1433126790435Jackson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Police say that she got into an argument with Buob in rush-hour traffic and witnesses say that she chased Buob and rammed his motorcycle. She is accused of pushing him 300 feet until he fell off his bike and then ran him over.

The prior orders will introduce a major fight over admission of evidence. Two of Jackson’s ex-boyfriends filed restraining orders against her and one said that she said that she wanted to run him over with her car. That can be a throw away comment in anger: “I wish I could hit him with my car.” However, it just so happens to be the same act that she is now accused of doing with lethal effect. Weighing the obvious huge prejudicial impact of such evidence against its materiality will be a difficult question.

According to NBC, former boyfriends said that she would make up threats and one said Jackson threatened to “kill him” and that she was going to “hurt herself, then call police and blame him.”

To make matters worse for the defense, there is a videotape that shows Jackson following Buob. Her lawyer says that he kicked her car and that she followed him and collided. However, the affirmative act of following generally works against a defendant in a road rage case.

22 thoughts on “Probative or Prejudicial? Woman Charged With Road Rage Killing of Sailor Has History of Restraining Orders From Ex-Boyfriends”

  2. Since she pushed him 300 feet on his motorcycle and then ran him over, the excuse of “following him” can be dismissed as absurd.

    She sounds like an unstable person, and a threat to anyone she dates. It also sounds like she had planned to use her gender as a weapon in her earlier threat to hurt herself and blame a man for it.

    My condolences for Mr Buob’s family, who must be inconsolable. I hope Jackson spends a long time in jail.

  3. POGO

    A the old CBPD routine; a job for the Dershowitz. Send in the Dershowitz.

  4. The “Nancy Sailor” header is just the most bizarre of frequent typos on this blog. Get a proofreader! or at least SpellCheck.

    1. laudyms – spellcheck doesn’t work if it is spelled wright but is the wrong word.

  5. bettykath and Inga – you have seen the Village People? Then you have seen a Nancy Sailor.

  6. Maybe she ran him over cause he’s the tattoo artist responsible for those horrendous tattoos. At first glance, I would thought that she was suffering from some sort of bizarre skin affliction that had mottled her stomach and thighs. Is this the broad who spilled hot McDonald’s coffee on herself?

  8. Send her to a penal colony in England where the men get women drunk and supposedly rape them according to the wigged lady in the other topic today.
    If convicted remove her tatoos. They are unsightly in prisons. Give her an additional four years in prison for each tattoo. Tattoos are dumb but really look hideous on women.

  9. I was wondering the same thing Bettykath. Maybe he’s from a ship called the USS Nancy? Not “Nancy boy” surely.

  12. Pogo

    Borderline or full blown, in this case? The Madonna part is close.

  13. They don’t need the evidence of the prior bad acts. This was done during rush hour and they have plenty of witnesses to the acts which was self evident in its nature.

  15. “”At first she seemed like a normal person, she seemed super normal,” [her previous boyfriend] Danny said. But then she…”

    Borderline (Madonna)

  16. “If I can’t have him, nobody can.” or “Nobody leaves me.” etc. It seems that throughout history this scenario has played out from both sexes so often that there should be technical terms from which to reference it. The medical profession comes up with initials and monikers with no more than a few examples almost immediately after this or that condition is noticed.

    What we need is a contest to ‘Name the Affliction’, if there isn’t one already.

  18. I’ve seen the video. It was shot from a distance but will help the case somewhat.

  19. Big story in San Diego. The prosecutor is adamant this was murder and it appears to be.

  20. A clear feminist victory over the patriarchy.

    This calls for women everywhere to start hauling mattresses around. Because they can’t carry a car.

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