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Madison, Wisconsin (AP) —The Supreme Court of Wisconsin can claim that a victim of sexual trafficking accused of murder is in court We will decide on Wednesday. It was justified to kill the man who trafficked her. This is a ruling that may help define the scope of immunity for trafficking victims nationwide.
According to the prosecutor, Chrystul Kizer traveled to Randall Volar's house in Kenosha in June 2018. According to court documents, she shot his head, burned his house, and stole the BMW. She was 17 at the time. She faces multiple accusations, including Arson and first-class deliberate murders. The count includes the required life sentence.
Kaiser, now 22 years old, claims to have met Voller on a sex trafficking website. She says he sexually attacked her and sold her to her others for her sex. According to her criminal charges, she told her detective that she shot him after he tried to touch her.
Her lawyer claims to be unaffected by the 2008 state law charges exempting victims of sexual trafficking for all crimes resulting from trafficking. According to Wisconsin's legal action to provide legal assistance to low-income earners, nearly 40 states have passed legislation that gives victims of human trafficking at least some criminal immunity.
They planned to implement an immunity law in court, but Kenosha County Patrol Judge David Wilk refused to allow the discussion. He determined that the immunity would only extend to accusations related to human trafficking, such as detention, robbery, prostitution, and slave labor. However, the Court of Appeals ruled last year that Kaiser could claim that the law protects her from prosecution.
State lawyers argued that the immunity law could not extend to murder and called on the Supreme Court to overturn that decision. Deputy Attorney General Timothy Barber said in an oral argument in March that Kaiser's interpretation created an unprecedented expansion of the doctrine of self-defense and questioned her whether it was rational or necessary to kill someone. Said to eliminate.
Kizer's lawyer Katie York told judges that the law clearly stipulates that victims of human trafficking are exempt from any crime. She said the jury should be allowed to consider whether the shooting is closely related to human trafficking and the immunity applies.
The court ruling does not conclude Kaiser's guilt or innocence. And the decision on whether she can claim her immunity does not bind other states, but may inform her lawyer's strategy in similar cases. Anti-violent groups are lined up to help Kaiser, and it's easy to tell the Supreme Court that victims of trafficking often feel trapped and believe they have to solve the problem on their own. Insist.
The Associated Press usually does not identify those who claim to be victims of sexual assault, but Kaiser has her case in a prison interview with the Washington Post published in 2019. We talked about.
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