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John and Lorena Bobbitt had been separated for one whole year. Their relationship was central to both sides in her trial. She was on the stand trying to explain to the jury what led to that separation and why they reunited. Jurors listened to more emotional and graphic testimony from the defendant herself during cross-examination. She told the jury about the different times John allegedly raped her during their marriage.
John and Lorena Bobbitt had been separated for one whole year. Their relationship was central to both sides in her trial. She was on the stand trying to explain to the jury what led to that separation and why they reunited. Jurors listened to more emotional and graphic testimony from the defendant herself during cross-examination. She told the jury about the different times John allegedly raped her during their marriage.
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The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP20 "Breaking Down A Turbulent Marriage"John and Lorena Bobbitt had been separated for one whole year. Their relationship was central to both sides in her trial. She was on the stand trying to explain to the jury what led to that separation and why they reunited. Jurors listened to more emotional and graphic testimony from the defendant herself during cross-examination. She told the jury about the different times John allegedly raped her during their marriage.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP21 "Attacking The Penis"Lorena Bobbitt continued answering questions under cross-examination. She reiterated her point that she mutilated her husband, John, after he raped her that night. Sobbing through tears she recalled how violent he was before she attacked him--alleging he raped her in their bedroom for 45 minutes. The Defense concluded that what Lorena did to her husband was the unthinkable. After years of alleged marital rape she had enough and targeted the very source of John's tool for abuse - his penis.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP22 "Bruises & Tears"The Defense continued to bring in more friends and clients of hers who spoke about what she allegedly went through while married to John. It included testimony verbal abuse and physical abuse. One of them on the stand recalled how Lorena was crying all the time and had bruises all over her body. The state alleged Lorena attacked her allegedly abusive husband because he wanted to divorce her.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP23 "More Friends And Clients"With the help of a translator, a family friend of Lorena Bobbitt answered questions under cross-examination. She testified to the times she witnessed John openly ridicule her appearance in a degrading way. Next to the stand was the woman who had a nail appointment with Lorena. Just days before she cut off her husband John's genitalia and threw it out of a car window, she showed up at her salon as a manicurist physically and emotionally disheveled.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP19 "Facing Cross Examination"Lorena Bobbitt answered questions under cross-examination. Prosecutors alleged that she intentionally severed her husband John's penis out of frustration with their sex life and the possibility of a divorce. The state tried to discredit Lorena as she testified in her own trial. Prosecutors spent time trying to portray the defendant - not as a gullible, innocent, domestic violence victim. But instead as someone who played a part in the couple's constant physical confrontations.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP18 "The Day Of The Attack"Lorena Bobbitt emotionally recalled her version of the night she cut off her husband's penis. She claimed things started with a vicious rape and then it ended with her with a knife mutilating John. On the stand she told jurors that she couldn't breathe and even felt like her vagina was ripping out of her. Sobbing during her testimony she recalled throwing the severed penis out of her car window and discarding the knife in a trash can outside of her place of employment.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP17 "Violence, Abortion And Rape"The second day of Lorena Bobbitt's testimony on the stand continued. She already told jurors that her immigration status as a green card holder was in jeopardy when she and John separated just two years into their marriage. Domestic violence, a forced abortion, and rape was what Lorena claimed went on during her marriage to John. On the stand, she got descriptive for jurors about their private life.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP16 "The Violent And Abusive Marriage"Jurors heard what life was like in the Bobbitt home, at least according to the defendant. Lorena Bobbitt took the stand to defend herself from the claim that she intentionally and maliciously chopped off her husband John's penis after allegedly being raped by him. According to her, John was a cheater, a rapist and an abuser. They separated twice - he left her. But they would eventually reunite.
