Most are interested in winning, and being reelected. One is apparently doing something to achieve justice. DA’s office gets murder conviction vacated
Traci Housman was arrested in 2009 and convicted in 2010 for stabbing her husband in their home. At the time, Housman accepted a plea offer of criminally negligent homicide and received a probation sentence. On Tuesday, the Boulder County court system vacated her murder conviction and renamed it self-defense.
That is unusual. There are DAs in this country that will fight to keep convictions in place despite evidence to the contrary. It is about winning after all, and appearing to be "tough on crime" for the next election. Usually.
District Attorney Anne Kelly of the Twelfth Judicial District who served in the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office and established the Domestic Violence Acute Response Team:
When a victim of coercive, controlling violence uses defensive violence to survive, it requires the criminal justice system to take a much deeper look at the entirety of the relationship that victim has with their abuser. That is exactly what the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office did here.
So why was the case pursued in 2009? Because DAs HATE self-defense. (Hat tip KABA.)
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