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...This case was not about a penis," said Lisa Kemler, one of Lorena's lawyers. "It was really about a life." In fact, two rather sad lives. Lorena is off to a Virginia mental hospital for a 45-day period of evaluation. She may soon partake of John's life of foolish fame -- book deals, movie offers and the like. At the verdict, his media adviser Paul Erickson said there would be no comment. "He's not into dancing on graves...
When the verdict came down last week, Lorena Bobbitt did not seem to know how to react. "Is that good?" she asked one of her attorneys. After seven hours of deliberation, a jury of five men and seven women had acquitted her by reason of temporary insanity for what the law describes as the malicious wounding of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt. In the more familiar language that even the most squeamish have learned to say out loud since she wielded her knife last June, she cut off his penis. "Fifty years ago, Lorena Bobbitt would have been convicted without...
...politics had indeed been one of the fig leaves used to discuss the case in polite company. How far can an abused wife go to protect herself? But John had been acquitted last November of marital rape. And last week the jury bought the tales of abuse and cruelty Lorena's defense team presented. A finding of temporary insanity is often a jury's way to let off a guilty defendant who has won its sympathy...
...Manassas, Virginia, jury found Lorena Bobbitt not guilty by reason of insanity of malicious wounding, concluding that she was so mentally impaired that she could not resist the impulse to sever her husband John Bobbitt's / penis. Mrs. Bobbitt was committed to a mental hospital for at least 45 days for observation...
...work every day with guys whose notions of gender etiquette are derived from Howard and Rush. And all too many women go home to Bobbitt-like fellows who regard the penis as a portable battering ram. So the ripple of glee that passed through the female population when Lorena Bobbitt struck back shows that feminist intellectualdom has it wrong. In polls, American women are strongly supportive of feminist issues, and if they nonetheless shrink from the F word itself, this is not because they think it means man-hating militants from hell. On the contrary, the problem with "feminism...