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...lawyers at Freda's, their favorite hangout, you may find yourself sitting next to Burr Hatfield. For another, the folks down here routinely make jokey references to the infamous dispute as if it had happened yesterday. But all family violence is not alike. And what most infuriates Marcella Kay Weekley's advocates--the band of lawyers, friends and relatives battling to get her out of jail--is when people describe what happened between Jackie and Kay Weekley as nothing more than some petty family feud...
...Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a pediatrician and shelter volunteer who once took in Kay and her children, is urging Governor Gaston Caperton to pardon Weekley. The Governor declined to speak with TIME, but a spokesperson says Caperton intends to announce a decision before he leaves office...
...woman's syndrome"--the psychological dependency that keeps a spouse trapped in a violent relationship, repeatedly forgiving her abuser and even sometimes blaming herself for the attacks. In recent years, legal protections for victims of domestic abuse have also been dramatically strengthened in ways that might have averted the Weekley tragedy. The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which was part of the federal crime law, made grants to states contingent in part on tougher domestic-violence laws. But, cautions Bonnie Campbell, the director of the Violence Against Women office at the U.S. Justice Department, "it doesn't matter how good...
...even ahead of, those in other states, even some of the state's educated professionals, like a group of Boone County lawyers, still think domestic violence is a joking matter. "Oh, of course, the woman is always totally 100% innocent," notes one sarcastically. The lead prosecutor on the Weekley case, Samuel Hall, does not seem to understand why Kay did not simply leave Jackie for good. "When your complaining witness--the person that is being abused so terribly--doesn't show up in court [to press charges], where does the blame lie?" he asks...
...Weekley's final act of violence was on June 6, 1992, when he stabbed Kay, Debbie and William during an argument at the mobile home where Kay was living. Three weeks later, as Kay tells it, she returned to clean blood from the trailer, bringing her father's shotgun for protection. On Sunday night, Jackie parked his car outside a pool hall just up a small incline from the trailer and put a quarter on the table to reserve a game. He then went down to see his ex-wife. Kay says she shot Jackie on the porch after...