Last time I checked Gary, having an affair was not a legal offense. Go preach your morals at Sunday school, and let the law take care of what is criminal.

So we should forgive her because she was under stress? PLEASE! Everyone in America is under stress. She went to FL with intent - intent to confront, intent to kidnap, intent to harm. That much is obvious. Becton may have damaged the case, but it's not over. I don't think this is pretty woman's justice - I think it's liberal judge justice and stupid cop justice.

Whoa, talk about self righteous; Hang up going on there son? Did you lose a wife to another man? Or is it a hysterical religious situation?... one career was destroyed by this woman, hers. The other two were of their own doing. The biggest player of the three was the male who was balancing one wife and two lovers - that we know about. Who said love is blind? In this case love was stupid & mind bending. Plus, the judge was right, the cop was wrong. He alone could have ruined the entire case with his lack of following procedure.

gotta start somewhere.

Nobody will get civil rights unless the rich and famous do first. As a nation we have had several years of tolerance of practices that violate the consititution. We need to get back to the principles that the framers of the constitution intended.

The more important issue here is the protection of society from robocops! What a great decision!

This woman deserves a painless first offense, deserves a second chance. Love is blind, the devil is freaking crazy, and so stuff happens. Lucky nobody got hurt.

I'm very surprised reading about the amount of support this 'nut" has in this blog. She is a criminal who was trying to do bodily harm to another woman. The evidence is clear that she wanted to hurt her rival. How can so many of you nuts support her?

Good grief--was Detective Chris Becton an amateur with no experience at all? His failure to answer questions about a lawyer and her rights, refusal of phone calls and failure to obtain written consent? I feel sorry for Shipman as she has every right to be afraid of this loony tunes woman and to have some justice after being terrorized and sprayed in the face with pepper spray. The evidence in that car showed pre-meditation. It is not going to be enough in the trial to just show stalking and it will be 'she said she said' what a shame.

O.K. she is mentally disturbed because she was under stress because of her life in space. I don't think she would have done any kind of murder. She just did something out of control. Media should leave her personal life. If this happened for 10 years ago, then this would have not got any attention.

The Constitution s/b held up for everyone, not just pretty female astranauts. The kind of police procedures used all the time everywhere in ths USA. A poor man or black man would absolutely never get this kind of break.

Let's review what she did. For years she carried on an adulterous relationship with a married man resulting in his divorce from his wife. One family destroyed. Then she continued to carry on with him and destroyed her family. Her husband trusted her. Her children trusted her and she repaid that trust by continuing in an adulterous relationship. The second family is destroyed. Then she attempts to murder a rival for the affections of her adulterous lover. This is the sweetheart that became an astronaut. I would guess that the only way that she got into the space program over many far more qualified male pilots was because of her gender. This is the sweetheart that probably will escape man's laws.

She did us a favor exposing the total disregard for civilian rights to a lawyer and civil right to a search warrant. This
disregard is so pervasive and in violation of the law representing a far greater threat than her silly incident.

Great News! I knew her lawyers were something special when they got on tv and tried to undo the diaper thing....awesome!

She deserves nothing in term so sympathy. She is an adulteress and betrayed her husband and children. She should be presecuted to the highest limits of the law. Much was given to her and much should be expected.

the title of this article says it all. guilty until proven innocent by abc news. isn't this the most professional article ever by abc?

This is soooo stupid. Evidence is evidence. Because of some lame technicality, the judge rules items obviously used in the crime are unadmissable. Murders, rapists, assaults, etc. all get away with things because the justice system is so caught up in technicalities that it ignores common sense. Besides, everyone already knows about these items.

What a joke. The sexist judiciary strikes again. She single-handedly ruined other male astronaut's careers and now as seen as some kind of "femme fatal hero". Men don't get ANY breaks when found in similar situations. And to say that "men really can mess with women's minds" shows the double-standard women live by on a daily basis. It is women that mess with men's minds and get away with murder. Mary Winkler, Lisa Nowak, Deborah LaFave, the list is endless. Constitutional rights? Only for the women, only for the women. How manipulative can they get? Now wonder they didn't want the Equal Rights Amendment. What a joke.

it is good to see some provisions of the constitution still respected by the courts. The initial stories of this case reeked of disregard for civil liberties.

I have worked with several astronauts and have the greatest respect for their talents. Dragging their personal lives thru the mud in the press is a waste of everybody's time. Everybody has personal issues. No one cares about mine cuz I'm not an astronaut or a movie star. We should cut some slack for Lisa and her coworkers.

What a mess, 3 careers toast thanks to this woman.

Im glad for my personal hero. She deserves that little help. I bet she wont be messing the outsides again

I must say, men can really mess with women's heads... that said, I think both those girls should drag his butt in the road. It sounds like he was playing around with both of them at the same time... and probably others. He was putting a little extra s in Astronaut if you know what I mean... and I think it is taaaaacky to be up in space on the taxpayers' dime writing dirty email! What a sleaze. Meanwhile Nowak is ready to kill the other woman. She should have saved her justice for him!

I'd call it pretty woman justice, but have to say, I've seen better.

All of these people that are so quick to say guilty forget what all this woman has accomplished for the good of this country, and I believe the other lady is out to get her anyway.

I agree with Lawrence, this is still the USA and the judge did the correct thing in suppressing the ill gotten evidence!

come on people, give the gal a break. The majority of the us can find some compassion by looking at that face. remember , justice is not for everybody.