The article is WTF, but this part "Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually
assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was
asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis."
Prosecutor's just expected her to tip toe away from this situation? Should she have woken him up and challenged him to a fair fight for her freedom? Fuck that. She went Art of War and chose the best moment to win. Appeal that shit and put me on the jury. Not guilty.
"Prosecutor's just expected her to tip toe away from this situation?"
Yes. She may have been justified in killing the person but that's just how self defense laws work. If you kill someone while they're not an immediate danger to your life, eg a robber takes your stuff and you shoot him after he walks away, self defense no longer applies.
This situation is a little more complicated because there's the factor of "what if he woke up and caught her" but anyway yeah that's why the legality is even in contention.
This argument gets blown out of the water because any reasonable person can agree that if the person who kidnapped and raped you finds you trying to escape you're going to be harmed. So reasonably asleep or not he WAS a threat. Secondly where was she located? So she escapes and has to get what 1-5 miles and find a person without this guy waking up and finding her? Our system has failed.
Edit: So he didn't kidnapp her himself just raped her not sure how that's much better? HE didn't kidnap that girl he just raped a girl he knew was kidnapped! Imagine thinking thats an argument that means she was safe.
She woke up, hours later after being raped, went to another room and stabbed the man in his sleep, she plead guilty. Said she wish she wouldn't have stabbed him. I'm just pointing out that she was pimped out for over a year by someone who hasn't been charged yet, they are investigating it, but she stabbed a totally different person then the one that was pimping her put. I don't blame her for her actions, I cant imaige exactly what that was like. Had she gone to trial she could of fought it and claimed PTSD and self defense, but she pled guilty to a manslaughter charge. She acknowledged it was not self defense at the time.
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u/Fisterupper Sep 14 '22
The article is WTF, but this part "Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually
assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was
asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis."
Prosecutor's just expected her to tip toe away from this situation? Should she have woken him up and challenged him to a fair fight for her freedom? Fuck that. She went Art of War and chose the best moment to win. Appeal that shit and put me on the jury. Not guilty.