SMU Perspectives
SMU Perspectives Podcasts is a series of interviews with thought leaders at SMU, a private research and teaching institute in Dallas. SMU community members share their expertise on a wide spectrum of topics and research. The first podcasts in the series focus on the work of Dedman Law School professors: Christina Sautter sheds light on the world of Wall Street retail investors who rocked the market as did those depicted in the hit movie, "Dumb Money"; Natalie Nanasi shares how her team at the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women rescues "criminalized survivors" of domestic abuse; experts in gun politics and policy will be interviewed for future podcasts.
SMU Perspectives
SMU Dallas law school clinic rescues women classified as 'criminalized survivors'
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One of the tragic ironies that domestic violence victims face is that they sometimes get arrested and even jailed during the very episode wherein they were abused. Case in point is a Texas woman who was date raped, abandoned in the driveway of a DFW home where she was later arrested for DWI and incarcerated. Law students of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women Clinic were assigned to her case by Dedman Law School professors. The students came to her rescue, produced evidence to law enforcement that their client was the real victim and thus a 'criminalized survivor.' The law students' efforts resulted in the the defendant's record being expunged.
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