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This case concerned the second-degree murder of a child by his mother. The trial court had denied the defendant’s request for the opportunity to present a cultural defense to the jury. She contended that her Chinese heritage and upbringing had impaired her state of mind such that she should not have been found guilty of murder. The court held that the trial court had erred in denying the defense. The opinion concerns the intersectional issues between race and gender in the criminal law setting.

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This vintage rape case concerns an Alabama court’s determination that the jury may consider “social conditions and customs founded upon racial differences, such that the prosecutrix was a white woman and the defendant was a Negro man” in assessing a Black defendant’s culpability for assault with intent to rape. This case represents how rape law was weaponized against Black men and is an ideal case for a feminist rewritten opinion to interrogate how race and rape are closely intertwined.

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9 - Commentary on State v. Williams

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