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A virtual court hearing was cut short as it became clear that the defendant was tuning in from the apartment of his alleged victim. The video was viewed more than 1 million times on YouTube before it was taken down.
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When pandemic conditions ease up enough to start holding jury trials again, Shelby County prosecutors will be facing dozens of domestic abuse cases, which even in normal years comprise half of all violent crime.
One way to speed up this process, according to experts? Not relying on victims to testify.
This story was produced in partnership with the Institute for Public Service Reporting, and is part of the series Surging in Silence, which is supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Many cases of intimate partner violence never make it to court because the current or former abused spouse or partner will not testify. Casey Gwinn doesn’t blame them.
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James is enrolled in a novel court-ordered therapy program that aims to reduce domestic violence. He accepted a diversion deal that will wipe his record clean if he successfully completes two years of probation in June. Image by Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to the Daily Memphian.
When police showed up at their door at midnight, it marked a terrible end to a lousy day. The married couple had started fighting that morning, over their daughter’s birthday party, and by evening, a mundane argument over who would cook dinner exploded.
According to arrest records, the wife said her husband followed her into the bedroom and “grabbed her with one hand around her neck and began choking her.’’ He tells a different story: He only grabbed his childhood sweetheart by the wrists. Theirs was simply a verbal altercation, he said.