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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011334)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| attitude that has to be confronted in various cases. |
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| Frequently, if there's domestic violence that's at issue, an |
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| expert witness comes in to explain to the jury, oh, why didn't |
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| she leave? |
| Why did she |
| stay with this fellow who was beating |
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| her up? |
| She was free to walk out of the relationship. Why |
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| didn't she do so? And there is a whole literature that I know |
| 7 |
| your Honor |
| is familiar with |
| and that we cited in our brief, as |
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| well. |
| 9 |
| We don't want to get into that in front of the jury in |
| 10 this particular case. This is a blame the victim tactic that |
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| shouldn't be allowed. This has very marginal, if any, |
| 12 |
| probative value and |
| a very significant prejudicial effect |
| 13 because the jury will potentially blame the victim for staying |
| 14 with her abusive spouse. |
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| Now, in addition, you'll notice from the pleading that |
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| the defendants |
| aren't intent just on asking questions about |
| 17 this, but they also want to go into the whole criminal case |
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| against Ms. Giuffre's husband, you know, whether he appeared of |
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| what the felony charges are and a variety of things. |
| That, |
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| obviously, has even less probative value than the information I |
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| discussing |
| a moment ago and should be independently |
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| excluded. |
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| The next issue up is item 15. And here, we ask to |
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| have excluded any |
| suggestions that sex with a 17-year-old is |
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| permissible. |
| You will recall that there's debate about exactly |
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