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The facts are not clear from this story (imagine that!). It says Mr. Sheehan was shaving in the bathroom when Mrs. Sheehan ventilated him with his own revolver. It says she took this rather drastic step "after he pointed his Glock semiautomatic pistol at her head." But apparently, she didn't draw on him when this happened, but rather after some undefined passage of time (had he pointed it at her the previous week? The previous night? Earlier that morning?). In other words the threat from Mr. Sheehan had abated by his own actions; all Mrs. Sheehan needed to do was bolt out the door.
Or, conversely, as Steel Talon suggests, he may have still been armed and could have still been in the fight, such as it was.
As to the jury, yes, it seems they were okay with her shooting him, just not okay with her shooting him eleven times with two different handguns.
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