State of North Carolina v. Joan Little

When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say,
“No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years
later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black
woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty
of murder using the defense that she used deadly force to resist
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