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Justice for all?

wants2laugh: …is a Power Member.; Join date : 2011-07-10
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Justice for all?

by wants2laugh Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:55 am

imagine a battered wife dies while getting beaten by her husband in what has become a routine occurrence over the years. The man often gets manslaughter because he did not intentionally mean to kill the woman--it was not premeditated and prior actions suggests that he would have stopped.

Now imagine the same woman kills her husband fearing for her life that he would eventually kill her. She usually gets first degree, premeditated murder. She had ample time to decide how to kill him and drew first blood before a beating.

Do you think this is fair? true, "battered woman's syndrome" has been used as a defense, but rarely works.

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Re: Justice for all?

by Supernova Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:57 am

Yeah the justice system is screwed up. Of course that works the other way around too, if a father kills his child, kills a newborn baby, then fry him, but if a MOTHER does it, oh let's not be too hard on her, it's not like she did anything wrong. Just because it was born doesn't mean it counted as a person or a life.

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Re: Justice for all?

by Shale Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:54 am

No, it is not fair. We are stuck with an imperfect system of 'justice.'

"There is no justice, in or out of the court." Attorney Clarence Darrow

As for mothers murdering their babies, often that is caused by 'post partem depression' and is a hormonal imbalance. In other words the insanity defence. And on rare occasion PTSD is used as a defence for battered wives killing their abusive husbands.

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Re: Justice for all?

by Nystyle709 Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:31 pm

wants2laugh wrote:imagine a battered wife dies while getting beaten by her husband in what has become a routine occurrence over the years. The man often gets manslaughter because he did not intentionally mean to kill the woman--it was not premeditated and prior actions suggests that he would have stopped.

Now imagine the same woman kills her husband fearing for her life that he would eventually kill her. She usually gets first degree, premeditated murder. She had ample time to decide how to kill him and drew first blood before a beating.

Do you think this is fair? true, "battered woman's syndrome" has been used as a defense, but rarely works.

Well, it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. That's the law. While I would sympathize with the woman more, she did commit premeditated murder that is clearly defined under the law. You have to follow it. I think battered woman's syndrome is a viable defense, I would hope she has a good enough lawyer. Abuse is also a crime. The guy should be locked up long before it would even get to that point.