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Through the wringer.(Karen Foxx kills husband on harrasment)
When state's attorney S. Ann Brobst of Baltimore County, Maryland, brought before a grand jury the case of Karen Foxx, a woman who had shot and killed her estranged husband, to determine whether she should go to trial for his death, Foxx's attorney did something unusual: she let her client testify before the grand jury.
The Baltimore Sun, which covered Foxx's story, said that it is unusual to have a client testify before a grand jury because "defense attorneys are not permitted in the room, ... prosecutors and jurors can ask anything they want, hearsay and speculative evidence are admissible and anything the suspect says can be used against him at trial if he is charged." Yet Foxx's defense attorney had her testify because she was a sympathetic suspect: her estranged husband, Herman Bullock, had beaten her frequently and caused her to seek restraining orders against him, file criminal charges against him, and change her phone number.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Through the wringer.(Karen Foxx kills husband on harrasment)