Woman Acquitted of Murder Based on Domestic Abuse Evidence
Charged with murder for stabbing her husband in the heart with a butter knife she picked up from a bedside table in their home, a New York hospital worker has been acquitted based on evidence of domestic abuse.
Donna Cobb, 42, told a Manhattan Supreme Court jury that she didn’t mean to kill Kevin Cobb, only protect herself as he was attacking her one night in November 2006, reports the New York Daily News.
“We brought in someone from her church, from her job, the two oldest kids; and they all corroborated the bruises and the black eye and the punctured ear drum,” says her lawyer, Earl Ward of his client’s injuries prior to Kevin Cobb’s death. “This was a case that should not have been brought.”
Earlier coverage:
New York Daily News: “I killed my coke-fiend husband in self-defense, Harlem nurse Donna Cobb claims”
