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Friday, August 27, 2004

The woman who should be the role model of all abused woman

In a 1975 case from Iowa, the 8th Circuit "determined that the husband died by accident when he hit his wife. She responded by telling him that she would shoot him if she had a gun. He then gave her a loaded gun and told her to shoot him (which she did). We determined that the husband did not subjectively believe his wife would shoot him, and that a reasonable person in the husband's position would not have foreseen his wife's willingness to commit manslaughter. The result depended on a close analysis of factors particular to the husband, including the fact that his wife had never threatened violence against him in any of the previous times he hit her."

There's someone who should be nominated for a Darwin's award.

On a different note. I despise drunk drivers. So yeah, if someone got dead drunk, got into his car and died in a car wreck. That should be considered suicide, not an accident. And if they kill someone else, first degree murder.