[MrEdd]

Just a grizzly case of suicide, if you ask me.

[gieriscm]

As a juror I wouldn’t vote to convict.

[WayneS]

...along with forming a relationship with a man her stepfather had banned her from seeing three days after his death, could be construed as something other than self-defence.

Exactly HOW did he ban her from seeing someone three days after he was already dead?

On a separate note: Based on what is reported, this is one of the clearest cases of self-defense homicide I have ever seen or heard of, and I can't imagine what the prosecutor is thinking, or IF he is thinking.

[Sci Fi Guy]

I've heard that with abuse cases, the victim many not believe that she (or he) can flee or run to authorities.

There was a case in MN, where a woman was severly beaten. Cops didn't/couldn't prevent it. the guy got a slap on the wrist. When the woman got out of the hospital he was waiting for her at home. the guy told her to make him some dinner then he was going to kill her. She made him dinner then shot him in the back of the head. ....she walked.

[Old Grumpy]

Justifiable homicide. The stepfather needed killing.

[Tainan]

Well...some folks just need killin.

Not Guilty.

[Abathar]

""He had used the images to blackmail her into submission. Asked by police what she thought would have happened if she hadn't killed him, she said she probably would have killed herself because she could not keep living the way she was.""

No matter what it seems that one of them was going to die.

Glad it was the right one.

[Ditter]

Good shot honey.

[LucyJo]

"She shot him so she didn't have to do it again ... a jury could form the view, albeit against a background of abuse, it was not committed in self-defence," he said.

He had been abusing and raping the child for years. "So she didn't have to do it again" sounds like self-defense to me.

Who knows the kinds of threats he had made toward her if she refused him or threatened to run away...that he would find her and kill her? He certainly threatened to kill her if she didn't obey him this time. She used the evidence of that threat to kill him so he wouldn't do it again.

[wastedyears]

Sounds like self-defense to me.

[TheConservativeParty]

Good for her, justice has been served.

[naturalman1975]

Follow up - charges dropped