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Stacey Lannert Case Study

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I did not agree with the verdict in the Stacey Lannert case. I believe Stacey suffered from a traumatic abusive life and her actions resulted from that. The problem with using the battered child defense was that at the time of the murder, Stacey was not being abused by her father. This makes it difficult to be used as “defense” because nothing was happening to her when she shot her father. In my opinion, Stacey killed her father because of what went on the past, what was currently going on and what could potentially happen in the future. All of her life, Stacey kept quiet about her fathers abuse. I feel like holding that in could build up some serious hatred in the future. With that being said and adding on to this hatred, Stacy’s sister

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