UKIAH, CA., 8/27/26 — The defense argument was that Jodine Rene Burkhart, 60, had no choice. An armed property owner had caught her loading his hay, and driving off drunk was the only way out of a dangerous confrontation.
A Mendocino County jury took minutes this week to decide that explanation didn’t work.
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