The lawyer for a woman accused of the murder of her husband yesterday told a Supreme Court jury that she acted in self defense.
During his opening address, slick willie Murrio Ducille – who appears for Marsha Lewis on trial for the June 7, 2010 murder of Selvin Lewis — said the law allows everyone to protect himself or herself, or others when threatened.
Lewis admitted to stabbing her husband in the chest during a fight at their five-room home in Lightbourne Avenue, according to the evidence presented by prosecution witnesses.
There is no doubt that her husband was an abusive piece of garbage, but was killing him really an act of self-defence? If the woman had been beaten on prior occassions, why was she still with the man? Could she have left that night to avoid a confrontation?
