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no protection,” Dowd said.
He described the defendant’s action in arming herself and walking down the hill as “a selfless and courageous decision of a good and decent woman.” She didn’t want her husband Roger to go because she didn’t want to provoke “this madman on a bulldozer,” Dowd said.
He reminded the jury that Trooper Baines had stopped to take his rifle from the trunk of his patrol car before reaching the scene. “And the Commonwealth has the gall to tell you that Diane Kidwell can’t pick up a shotgun to protect herself on her own property?” Dowd shouted at the jury. “Her home is her castle...A woman’s first instinct is to protect... Where does it say in the law that she has to submit to the tyranny of a professional bully on a 41,000 pound bulldozer?... She’s got guts. She stepped forward,” Dowd said, likening Kidwell to the fireman who rescues a child from a burning building, the man who dives into the freezing waters of a river to
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