Retarded state legislation: Nevada edition

Last week, the good folks over at Quiz Law reported on a Nevada state representative who stabbed her new husband:

State Assemblywoman Francis Allen, a Republican :), faces a felony charge of stabbing her new husband in the arm with a steak knife and then telling him to call his mother after he asked for help with the wound, according to a police report.

This is amusing, but Supreme Dicta has uncovered new information that raises the hilarity level of this story by a notch or two.

Check out this bill that Rep. Allen sponsored in 2007:

AB 398 - revising certain provisions concerning justifiable homicide

Section 2 of this bill revises the standard applied for determining when a homicide is justified. Under existing law, to establish justifiable homicide the circumstances must be sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person and the person who committed the killing must not have acted in revenge. This bill instead requires that the person who committed the killing of another person had at least a bare fear that the person killed intended to commit a certain offense and the person who committed the killing was not acting in revenge.

Lowering the legal threshold required for homicide to be justified...if it had passed, it might have helped its primary sponsor last week. I suppose the only way for more egg to be on this woman's face is if she had sponsored a budget amendment giving state subsidies to the producers of steak knives.

Also check out her campaign website. Apparently her slogans are: Integrity. Trust. Leadership. Stabbing. Taunting. OK so two of those slogans are made up. I bet you can figure out which.