Says she has evidence of past abuse. Some women are too afraid to tell or go to the cops. I knew a woman whose husband would wait until the kids were sound asleep, then beat her body on areas the kids would not be likely to see. She would muffle her screams so the kids wouldn’t hear her. She was too afraid to go to the cops or leave him. I asked her why he was beating her. “ Well, I guess it’s my fault. I guess I just make him mad.”, was her reply. I knew another woman who, as a young woman, had gotten married to a Puerto Rican guy, who was a drug dealer. Like the other woman, he demanded a perfect home. This one was made to keep the house spotless, and wash the walls, floor to ceiling, every week, or get beaten. She also had 2 kids and a full time job, and her husband would clock her drive time, and if she got home one minute past the time he new the drive was, he’d beat her. She finally got away from him. I forget if he went to prison or was killed. She never reported his behavior. She was scared to death of him. I’d like to think if a man beat me, he’d only do it ONCE, but when there are kids involved, I imagine the fear of what might happen to them if he killed you or succeeded in getting your kids away from you, would complicate your actions, to say the least.
Having said all that, if the woman had some kind of documentation that she had been repeatedly abused, she might have been better off to be charged and gotten acquitted. There’s no statute of limitations on murder. I’d hate to have that possibility hanging over my head the rest of my life.
On the other hand, she might have gotten some jurors like a few FReepers here, to whom no woman is any good, it’s always their fault, and they all deserved to be beaten.
There are a-holes and abusers out there.
But maybe there are female murderers wanting to use that?
Someone very close to me was in a relationship like that. She managed somehow to escape him. She is now a ass kicking conservative woman, but at the time, he had her a sniveling little victim. So it does happen, probably more frequently that most here would believe.
It is always amazing to me how “nice” people marry truly bad people.
Stay single and stay sane.
Abuse by men is what fuels feminism.
C'mon...gimme a break.If she had gone to trial and I was a juror I'd want to hear something...something convincing...about grave and immediate danger."He abused me for years" wouldn't be enough for a not guilty vote from me on a manslaughter charge even if I believed those claims.
If the charge against her was 1st Degree Murder and I was inclined to believe her claims of long term abuse I *would* vote not guilty because that abuse would constitute a "provocation" in my mind,thus making her act less grievous that "Murder One"IOW,she would have been over charged by the prosecutor/Grand Jury.