But Winkler testified her husband had beaten her throughout their marriage and forced her to engage in sex, wear what she called "slutty" outfits to bed and watch pornography against her will. She also maintained she shot her husband accidentally when the gun discharged unexpectedly.

Mary Carol Winkler (born December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small city of Selmer, Tennessee.

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