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To: D. Long who wrote (201148)3/31/2007 9:04:25 PM
From: Ichy Smith   of 793698
 
Oh, the guy getting off is perfectly fine. That's a very old twist on "heat of passion" manslaughter. But charging the wife for instigating it is bizarre.

"In some countries, notably France, crime passionnel (or crime of passion) was a valid defense during murder cases; during the 19th century, some cases could be a custodial sentence for two years for the murderer, while the spouse was dead; this ended in France as the Napoleonic code was updated in the 1970s so that specific father's authority upon his whole family was over."
en.wikipedia.org

It is time that just as Rape should be considered a serious crime, a false allegation of rape should be considered a serious crime. In this case a man died because of a false rape charge. There are many men, who would react to the rape of a wife or child with violence. I suspect Murder might be a better charge, but manslaughter seems at least appropriate.
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