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In 1993: The night Lorena Bobbitt acted — and what the jury decided

On June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her sleeping husband's penis with a kitchen knife in their Manassas, Virginia apartment; she was acquitted of malicious wounding in January 1994 after arguing years of domestic abuse had overwhelmed her capacity for rational decision-making.