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Criminal

Apr. 14, 2004

A Disarming Decision

SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her husband from slapping her around, but she refused to testify against him after they filed a misdemeanor charge.

By Dennis J. Opatrny
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her husband from slapping her around, but she refused to testify against him after they filed a misdemeanor charge.
        "We had so...

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