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Canada: Top court hears landmark spousal abuse case
Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2012-06-18 20:02
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments Thursday on whether victims of domestic abuse can hire a hit man to kill their partners, a controversial issue which tests the limits of the defence of duress.
The case involves a Nova Scotia woman, Nicole Doucet, who tried to hire an undercover RCMP officer to kill her husband Michael Ryan.
The high school teacher was arrested in March 2008 and charged with counselling to commit murder.
She was acquitted of the charge two years later after the Nova Scotia Supreme Court accepted her argument that she thought she had no other way out of an abusive 15-year marriage to a man who repeatedly threatened her and her daughter.'
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The DV movement
I know I sound cynical, but I believe a purpose of the DV movement is to permit women to abuse and murder men without repercussions. We've seen that in a number of cases, often based on the unfounded "battered woman syndrome." A woman killing a man because he was "abusive" has become the Western equivalent of Middle East "honor killings." Vigilantism usually results in a miscarriage of justice.