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SA - The Daily Iowan -Iowa City, Iowa· Friday. January 21 . 1994 'Mli"iWlIuP_tm"'flMt,t:"i,Jii,,1 Jury deliberates malicious wounding case Anne Cearan Associated Press MANASSAS, Va . - A jury began trying to decide Thursday whether Lorena Bobbitt cut ofT her husband's penis in -calculated and malicious" revenge, or because she was emotionally bat- tered by his sexual abuse. The prosecutor conceded Lorena Bobbitt was raped during her four-year marriage, but that she had plenty of options short of attacking her husband . . The jury deliberated less than 30 minutes before breaking for the day. The panel was scheduled to resume deliberations Friday. The jury, which heard seven days of testimony, was asked to decide whether Lorena Bobbitt acted in willful, malicious anger when she mutilated her husband, or whether she Bnapped under the presallre of years of abuse. Judge Herman Whisenant Jr. told the seven women and five men that they also could consider a lesser charge of unlawful wounding, which has a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Lorena Bobbitt, 24, faced up to 20 years in prison and deportation to her native South America if convicted of maliciously wounding Bobbitt. In closing arguments, defense attorney Blair Howard main· tained that John Bobbitt raped his wife in the early hours of June 23, shortly before she severed his penis. "1 can think of no greater provo- cation than the act of rape," he said. "To rape a woman is not only a violation of the body . . " It is a direct attack on the emotional structure that holds a woman together." Prince William County Com- monwealth's attorney Paul Ebert said Bobbitt had raped his wife during their marriage, but that, "Two wrongs don't make aright." ·Sometimes I'm sure she didn't want to have sex. And she had the right to refuse him. But it wasn't every day, and it wasn't every week ... that John Bobbitt raped her; he said. "You can't take the law in your own hands: he said. Lorena Bobbitt contended that years of physical and sexual abuse drove her into mental illness and an -irresistible impulse" to harm Bobbitt. She said she acted after Bobbitt returned home from a UNIVIIII.tTY COUN.ELING .... VICI WOltlehop .. Prog ....... a Group. SprIng'" 330 Weat .. wn •• PROGRAMS Making Peace with Food ....................... Begins Tues., 1125 Study Skills Series .................. , ...... , ....... Begins Tues ., 1/25 The Male Experience .............. , ............. Begins Mon., 1/31 2001 : CareerN/ork Issues ..................... Begins Thur., 2/3 Chemistry Study Skills ............ ............... Hel~ Thur., 2/10 Assertive Conmunication ........ ............. Begins Thur., 2124 Stress Management .................. ............ 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