When Wanda Maddux took the stand to testify in her own defense, she told the jury that the day before her daughter died her husband, Ronnie, "acted plumb wild. He's been mean before, but I've never seen him that bad."
Will Wanda be able to convince the jury that Ronald Maddux was a batterer who targeted Melisha for abuse without her consent or approval?
Targeted: True Crime Domestic Violence. We’ll investigate one case of family violence each season, using academic research to interpret the events so that we can become better advocates.
Getting Off Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-off/id1309689589?mt=2 Thanks to Jessa Nicholson Goetz for her legal help (around minute 28!!)
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Articles in today's episode:
Fugate, Jeanne A. (2001).“Who's Failing Whom? A Critical Look at Failure-to-Protect Laws.” N.Y.U. Law Review, Vol. 76, 272-308http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawReview-76-1-Fugate.pdf
Johnson, Anne J. (1987). “Criminal Liability for Parents Who Fail to Protect.” Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol 5, Issue 2, 359-390https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1424&context=lawineq
2.9 Fight for Justice: Whatever Happens, Happens in Tracey v. City of Torrington
2.8 Fight for Justice: Unequal Protection and the 14th Amendment
2.7 Fight for Justice: What about the Baby?
2.6 Targeted Topic: Restraining Orders – Worth the Paper They’re Written On?
2.5 Fight for Justice: The Trials of Buck
2.4 Fight for Justice: The Aftermath
2.3 Why Did She Stay? The Leaving Process and Media Messages about Love Final.
2.2 Fight for Justice: I Will Get You and I Will Hurt You
2.1 Season Two Introduction
1.20 Fight for Justice: Looking Toward Season Two (Season Finale)
1.19 Missy, We Won't Forget (Case Wrap-Up)
1.18 Targeted Topic: Why Do Abusers Stay? With Kate, Ignorance Was Bliss podcast
1.17 Targeted Topic: When the SPCA Saved a Child
1.16 Roundtable
1.15 Child Abuse Laws: Not a Story of Failure, but of Progress & Hope
1.14 No Longer in the Shadows: Child Abuse
1.13 Keeping Families Together
1.12 On the Banks of the Nile: The Verdict & Aftermath
1.10 The Stepfather's Defense
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