Montana Woman Who Killed Abusive Ex Is Permanently Cleared (Sanders, county, states)
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A judge in Sanders County, Montana, on Tuesday dropped deliberate homicide charges against a woman who killed her abusive ex-husband, in a surprising win for advocates who argued she should not have to live with the threat of prosecution hanging over her.
Rachel Bellesen, a 38-year-old coordinator at the Abbie Shelter for domestic violence survivors, shot and killed her former husband, Jacob Glace, on Oct. 8 of last year. Bellesen admitted to the shooting but said she did so because Glace, who had pleaded guilty to assaulting her years earlier, had twice attempted to rape her that night.
Good for her.
It's also good that she lives there and not in Oregon, Wisconsin, or other democrat states, where she likely would have been charged and found guilty for protecting herself.
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