Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense and the Law by Cynthia K. Gillespie

Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense and the Law

Cynthia K. Gillespie

252 pages first pub 1989 (view editions)

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"This is a study to set women's blood boiling. Seattle attorney Gillespie details how unjust the judiciary is to battered women who kill their tormentors. She shows that the law of self-defense is adjudged by many courts not to apply to battered w...

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