Completely agree with Helen. And so far as the case Helen is talking about, no, it's not particularly 'murky' and the injustice certainly is 'as horrible as implied." The girl was trafficked. You mention she had prior drug use. I don't know what's your point: of course she had prior drug use. You would too if day after day after day you were being raped for money (as the prostituted women I know call it). In your description of how "murky" it is you left off other parts of the same article you cited, such as the fact that the jury wasn't allowed to hear "much of her tragic backstory of prostitution, abuse and ultimately why she shot Allen. Brown said when she was 16 she was a runaway and met a 24-year-old man known as "Cut-throat." She started living with him and they moved around to different hotels, the Associated Press reported. He was abusive—both physically and emotionally—and forced her to prostitute herself for money. He also regularly choked, beat and raped her. "He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut, and nobody'd want me but him, and the best thing I could do was just learn to be a good whore," Brown told a judge in 2012 during an appeal hearing." that's from the article you cited. If you want to learn more about what women in these situations go through, there are plenty of good books by survivors like Rachel Moran. Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery is a good exploration of the effects of repeated trauma on the psyche. It will also help people understand why many battered women don't leave. And a very good book on the psychology of battered women who kill is "When Battered Women Kill" by Angela Browne. https://www.amazon.com/When-Battered.../dp/0029038812
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