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The abuse defense is "the legal tactic by which criminal defendants claim a history of abuse as an excuse for violent retaliation". [2] In some instances, such as the Bobbitt trial, the supposed abuse occurs shortly before the retaliative act; in such cases, the abuse excuse is raised as a means of claiming temporary insanity or the right of self-defense.
Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The Court held that prior testimonial statements of witnesses who have since ...
Dec. 11—CHIPPEWA FALLS — Attorneys in the Lily Peters murder case have submitted their final written arguments to the court on whether the teen suspected in her death should be tried as an ...
Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in a landmark case seeking to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for abuse at its youth detention center. The plaintiff, David Meehan, went to ...
The Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday after oral arguments to rule in favor of a federal law that bars individuals subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.
United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and whether it empowers the government to prohibit firearm possession by a person with a civil domestic violence restraining order in the absence of a corresponding criminal domestic violence conviction or charge.
Finally, the non-profit Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was admitted as amicus curiae; represented by George Bizos and the Legal Resources Centre, it joined the Minister of Justice in arguing against the validity of section 49.
State and others argue law is constitutional. The North Carolina law, along with legislation adopted by other states, recognizes research that shows coming to terms with child sexual abuse can ...