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Trust YOUR Lawyer with Self-Defense Case? Are You SURE?
In today’s show we cover the recent successful appeal of a Washington state woman who had overturned her conviction on a charge of first-degree (reckless, unintentional) manslaughter over the stabbing death of abusive boyfriend. The reason for the reversal of the conviction? The woman’s trial attorney–and, apparently, the trial court itself–MISTAKENLY believed that self-defense was …