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Virginia's Gap Between Punishment And Culpability: Re-Examining Self-Defense Law And Battered Women's Syndrome, Kendall Hamilton
Virginia's Gap Between Punishment And Culpability: Re-Examining Self-Defense Law And Battered Women's Syndrome, Kendall Hamilton
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
State V. Harden: Muddying The Waters Of Self-Defense Law In West Virginia, Devin C. Daines
State V. Harden: Muddying The Waters Of Self-Defense Law In West Virginia, Devin C. Daines
West Virginia Law Review
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State V. Riker, Battered Women Under Duress: The Concept The Washington Supreme Court Could Not Grasp, Ann-Marie Montgomery
State V. Riker, Battered Women Under Duress: The Concept The Washington Supreme Court Could Not Grasp, Ann-Marie Montgomery
Seattle University Law Review
Although some people have the option of going to the police after receiving threats on their lives, this was not the case for Deborah Riker: Deborah is a battered woman. Since age nine, Deborah suffered repeated torture and abuse at the hands of men who were in her life. In 1987, Deborah met Rupert Burke, a man who abused both women and drugs. When Burke threatened both Deborah and her sister, Deborah did what he told her to do: she soldhim cocaine. As a result, Deborah was charged with delivery and possession of cocaine. Deborah's case presented the classic defense …
Self-Defense In Colorado, H. Patrick Furman
Character Evidence, James L. Kainen
Evidence: Admissibility Of Uncommunicated Threats Of A Deceased Person--Griffin V. United States, Cecil Walden
Evidence: Admissibility Of Uncommunicated Threats Of A Deceased Person--Griffin V. United States, Cecil Walden
Kentucky Law Journal
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Evidence-Admissibility Of Uncommunicated Threats, Thomas Hartwell S. Ed.
Evidence-Admissibility Of Uncommunicated Threats, Thomas Hartwell S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, following his killing of one Hunter as the outcome of a quarrel. The defendant had pleaded self-defense, contending that Hunter had appeared to threaten him. The defendant was the only witness to testify as to any aggression on the part of Hunter, while the four eyewitnesses to the killing all testified that the accused had attacked Hunter without warning and had fired upon Hunter's wife and child. Defendant's motion for new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence showing that Hunter had in his pocket an open knife, which …