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07-08 GROUNDBREAKING DECISION: Sex Trafficking Victim Chrystul Kizer Wins Key Wisconsin Court Ruling

In a groundbreaking decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a teenager who killed her sexual abuser may have the chance to be acquitted of all charges.

The decision is a major win for Chrystul Kizer, now 22, a Black woman who is facing life in prison for the crimes she committed at 17, and for anti-trafficking advocates who have spent decades pushing for laws to protect people like Kizer.

Kizer does not deny killing 34-year-old Randall Phillip Volar III in 2018. For years, she has been fighting for the opportunity to show evidence toa judge, and eventually a jury, that her actions were the “direct result” of the exploitation and abuse Volar subjected her to. She hoped to employ a never-before-used Wisconsin law that was designed to offer legal protection to some trafficking victims, who are often coerced or cornered into committing crimes while they are being exploited.

 

He was sexually abusing underage girls. Then one of them killed him.

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lynnswarriors07-08 GROUNDBREAKING DECISION: Sex Trafficking Victim Chrystul Kizer Wins Key Wisconsin Court Ruling