Marla Hanson's assailants tore razor blades across her model-perfect face, but the assault wasn't as degrading as pressing her case in court.
"I suffered more from the stigma of being a victim," Hanson, 29, says. "The psychological violence at the hands of the defense attorney and judge was much worse than the violence on the street."
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Ohio's battered women; Inmates hope for freedom to start over
Oct. 4, 1990
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Until recently, the battered woman symdrome defense was not allowed in Ohio courts. Now, Gov. Celeste may grant 18 women clemency. And that could be just the beginning for Ohio's battered women.
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'No one has a script for what to do after being raped; Knife-wielding rapist altered student's life
Nov. 30, 1990
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A 28-year-old graduate student was raped at knifepoint in the bedroom of her apartment at about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
That's what the papers said. The nameless stories made the violence seem far away, its victim a faceless stranger.
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Colleges 'degrade' rape victims
June 11, 1991
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Carleton College student Kristene Maxie expected the school to protect her. After she was raped, she expected it to punish her attacker.
But Maxie, one of four students charging in a lawsuit that the school didn't provide a safe environment and inadequately disciplined their attackers, says Carleton let her assailant get away with rape.
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Athletes and rape: Alarming link
Aug. 27, 1991
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Sometime next week, heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson could learn whether he is to be formally charged with raping an 18-year-old Miss Black America contestant. For Tyson, the incident has been another ugly episode in a personal life that seems to have been spinning out of control for some time.
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Willie Smith on trial; 'A woman's word against a man's word'
Oct. 29, 1991
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PALM BEACH - The long-anticipated siege of Palm Beach is under way: The William Kennedy Smith rape trial is about to begin.
Since Easter, when a woman reported being raped at the Kennedy compound here, defense and prosecution lawyers have served up a steady diet of sordid revelations, leading the public into a raging debate about the fall of Camelot, date rape and the media's right to print the names of women charging rape.
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A question of credibility; Smith trial: Whom will jury believe?
Dec. 2, 1991
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PALM BEACH - The alleged victim has given her version seven times.
The Kennedy clan - from Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to long-time housekeeper Nellie McGraw - has filled thousands of pages of court record with its accounts of what happened here Easter weekend.
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Experts: Who emerged the real victim?
Dec. 12, 1991
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William Kennedy Smith is free, acquitted of rape - but the nation remains captive to the disturbing issues and passions his trial raised.
The story of one man, one woman and one night's sex has been magnified and appropriated to make scores of other points: about the fragility of reputation, the force of accusation, the confused states of lust and trust and justice.
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After the storm, rebuilding at home; Experience of war 'changes you inside'
Jan. 16, 1992
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For a little while, there were parades, proclamations and yellow ribbons.
Soon after came nightmares, divorces, sicknesses and bills.
A year after the start of the Persian Gulf War, many who survived that conflict wage other, more private battles.
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The verdict: 'Sad case' but encouraging
Feb. 12, 1992
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson returned to an Indianapolis courtroom Tuesday a convicted felon.
The 18-year-old woman, who Tyson was convicted of raping, headed home to Rhode Island.
