NP--All the Pretty Horses: Item!

[Howard, Jesse]

I call it a "sling blade"

On Friday, January 08, 1999 11:55 AM, MalignD at aol.com [SMTP:MalignD at aol.com]
wrote:
> <<Retarded wife beater, or just the garden-variety domestic perp?>>
> 
> Here're the (alleged) facts.  You classify.
> 
> LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The estranged wife of Academy Award-winner Billy 
> Bob Thornton has received a restraining order against her husband, 
> saying she endured years of physical and emotional abuse and now fears 
> for her life. 
> 
> Pietra Thornton filed the request Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, 
> three days after she petitioned for divorce from the 
> actor-writer-director. The couple married four years ago. 
> 
> "The abuse, particularly the physical abuse, has become more severe over 
> the past 12 months," Pietra Thornton wrote in her petition. 
> 
> "I am terrified that my filing this proceeding has jeopardized my life 
> and that (he) will now follow through on his threats to kill me. I need 
> protection," she said. 
> 
> She detailed an incident in which Thornton allegedly pushed his 
> then-pregnant wife onto a coffee table. She also accused him of 
> punching, pushing, hitting and biting her.