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...Simpson "beat me for hours as I kept crawling for the door" and forced her to have sex while he went on smacking her. The box also held Polaroids that show Nicole's face badly bruised, news clips about O.J.'s 1989 plea of no contest to charges of spousal abuse and three letters from him asking her forgiveness...
Prior crimes can be used, however, to show motive, intent or planning. More recently the law has carved out a further exception for sexual assault, spousal murder and child molestation by bringing forward evidence that a pattern of past offenses in those areas is an especially good indicator of guilt. That reasoning exasperates some legal thinkers. "You can't infer murder from abuse," insists Columbia University law professor George Fletcher. "Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide." All the same, the crime bill that was recently passed by Congress allows prior behavior to be used as evidence...
...that prosecutors drilled out the lock on Nicole Brown Simpson's safe-deposit box and seized photographs of her with a bruised forehead and injured left eye. The pictures show injuries Ms. Simpson had after police were summoned to the Simpson home in 1989. Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal battery in that incident. Prosecutors are expected to argue that the photos show a pattern of spouse abuse by O.J. Simpson. The defense is likely to try to block use of the photos since they were taken well before the 1994 killings and because Nicole Simpson can't be cross...
...wonder Radcliffe herself hasn't yet filed for divorce, considering her oft-repeated claims of spousal abuse. "Harvard harassed me," she said. "He got me drunk and raped me," she cried. A divorce in this one rare case, therefore, would be in the best interest of both parties. And if it's any consolation, Radcliffe can keep the children--Deans Epps and Jewett...
Mitchell is less forthcoming about the inspiration for Not to Blame, a song about spousal abuse that seems to allude to the well-publicized domestic troubles of West Coast rocker Jackson Browne and actress Daryl Hannah. "It's not about anyone specific," she insists. "It's about the phenomenon of the battered woman at this time...