A/T: Murders done by victims of domestic violence are made out of selfdefense.

Victims of domestic abuse are able to use their stories of abuse to convince
the jury to acquit them through jury nullification for murders they commit,
even if the murders are unrelated to the abuse.
(Josephine Ross, Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law, 2012, HE LOOKS GUILTY:
REFORMING GOOD CHARACTER EVIDENCE TO UNDERCUT THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT, University of
Pittsburgh Law Review, http://lawreview.law.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/lawreview/article/viewFile/18/18)
While we are uncomfortable with the jury nullification of white murders in the Reconstructionist South, most of us are comfortable with the
acquittals in runaway slave cases. The recent controversy over jury nullification in favor of black defendants on account of race brought many
of these issues to the forefront, including the fact 6

the acquittal of murder for battered women who detail their abuse as
[is] a form of jury nullification.
A/T: When victims of domestic violence kill out of self-defense, jury
nullification is the best/only way for the victims to receive justice.
When victims of domestic violence kill out of self-defense, there are better
methods than jury nullification to give them a fair verdict, such as the SocialAgency Framework (SAF), as proven by research.
(Shahrzad NIkoo, PhD in Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College, 2012, Abused Women Who Kill:
Juror Perspectives on Self-Defense Theories, http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=1321&context=cmc_theses)

In self-defense cases of battered women who kill their abusive

husbands, defendants have used Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) expert testimony to help justify their acts of self-defense.
However, past research demonstrates that BWS is ineffective in persuading jurors because it pathologizes the defendant rather than
rationalizing her behavior. Additionally, BWS highlights passive (i.e., stereotypical) features of a battered woman, and such testimony may not

another type of
expert testimony, Social-Agency Framework (SAF), will persuade
jurors to render more lenient verdicts, and that the defendants
passive or active response history will affect verdict decisions.
Additionally, a meditational model predicted that the effect of mock
jurors gender on verdict decisions will be mediated by their
attitudes toward battered women. In a 3(expert testimony: BWS vs. SAF vs. control) x 2(response history:
apply to a defendant with active (i.e., atypical) features of a battered women. The current study hypothesized that

passive vs. active) x 2(gender: male vs. female) model, jury-eligible participants (expected N = 510) recruited from the website mTurk

The
results indicated significant findings for the effects of expert
testimony and response history on verdict outcomes. A full mediation was found,
answered a survey measuring their attitudes toward battered women, read a mock trial transcript, and rendered a verdict.

indicating that gender acted as a proxy for jurors attitudes, influencing their verdict decisions. This study has strong legal implications that
highlight the prevailing effect of attitudes and how those attitudes may override the effects of expert testimony and defendant response
history.

(Debra Pogrund Stark, Law professor and director of Domestic Violence Clinical Advocacy Program at
The John Marshall Law School, 2015, Whats Law Got to Do With It? Confronting Judicial Nullification of
Domestic Violence Remedies, Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy, Volume 10, Issue 1 10.1,
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=njlsp)

The answer to the problem of

judicial nullification is not to do away with generally well-functioning
courthouses, but instead to better train and educate judges, reform
problematic practices, modify laws as necessary so that they are
better able to be implemented, and when necessary, take aggressive
steps to appeal judicial decisions when they are inconsistent with
the legislative protections that have been enacted. Once this
But, creating courthouses that specialize in domestic violence is not a mistake.

groundwork is laid, attorneys and advocates who assist survivors in

obtaining orders of protection should no longer fear judicial reprisal
when they seek the full range of remedies to which their clients are
entitled.
Juries show sympathy towards the victim, so they are more likely to vote in
favor of a verdict protecting the victim.
(Emily Catherine Hodell, PhD in Psychology from University of Kentucky, 2010, When Battered Persons
Kill: The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Mock Juror Perceptions, University of Kentucky Doctoral
Dissertations, http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=gradschool_diss)
The present experiment investigated the role of gender stereotypes in cases in which a battered person kills his or her abuser. Regression
analysis revealed an overall gender bias such that mock jurors were more likely to convict a man defendant who had killed his abusive wife

Mediational analyses indicated

that the relationship between abuser gender and verdict was partially mediated by
sympathy toward the victim, and fully mediated by sympathy toward
the defendant. Regression analysis also revealed an effect of abuser height, such that conviction rates were higher when an
than they were when a woman defendant who had killed her husband.

abuser was taller than his or her

trends suggested the act of killing an

abusive partner was perceived as a protective act toward the child .
partner, regardless of abuser gender. Though not significant,

Overall, the present study provides evidence that gender biases exist in cases in which a battered person kills his or her abuser.

A/T: Paul Elam (basically men should be allowed to rapenot really sure why
people are running this)
Paul Elam advocates for the rape of women.

I have ideas about women who spend evenings in bars hustling

men for drinks, playing on their sexual desires And the women
who drink and make out, doing everything short of sex with men all
evening, and then go to his apartment at 2:00 a.m... Sometimes
both of these women end up being the victims of rape.
But are these women asking to get raped?
In the most severe and emphatic terms possible the answer is NO, THEY ARE NOT ASKING TO GET RAPED.

They are freaking begging for it.

Damn near demanding it.

there
are a lot of women who get pummeled and pumped because they are
stupid (and often arrogant) enough to walk though life with the
equivalent of a IM A STUPID, CONNIVING BITCH PLEASE RAPE
ME neon sign glowing above their empty little narcissistic heads.
And all the outraged PC demands to get huffy and point out how nothing justifies or excuses rape wont change the fact that

Rape is bad.

(HE Baber, professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University,
How Bad is Rape?, 1987, http://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/research/rape.pdf)

Rape is bad because it constitutes a serious harm to the victim. To

harm a person is to thwart, set back or otherwise interfere with his
interests. Understood in this sense, harm is not synonymous with hurt. We typically have an interest in
avoiding chronic, distracting physical pain and psychic anguish insofar as we
require a certain degree of physical and emotional well-being to
pursue our projects, hence hurts are often harmful.