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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now for the Movie | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...Bobbitt Acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week January 16-22 | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week January 16-22 | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...Lorena Bobbitt's insanity defense wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...dismemberment of John Bobbitt took place at Maplewood Garden Apartments in PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raw Data: Jan. 24, 1994 | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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