Chrystul Kizer agrees a plea deal to avoid life term for shooting dead Randall Volar, whom she said was her sex-trafficker.

A Milwaukee woman has been jailed for 11 years for killing the man that prosecutors said had sex trafficked her as a teenager.

The sentence, issued on Monday, ends a six-year legal battle for Chrystul Kizer, now 24, who had argued she should be immune from prosecution.

Kizer was charged with reckless homicide for shooting Randall Volar, 34, in 2018 when she was 17. She accepted a plea deal earlier this year to avoid a life sentence.

Volar had been filming his sexual abuse of Kizer for more than a year before he was killed.

Kizer said she met Volar when she was 16, and that the man sexually assaulted her while giving her cash and gifts. She said he also made money by selling her to other men for sex.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    1375·
    3 months ago

    This lady needs to be pardoned or it’s the origin story for a villain who has an understandable grudge against the justice system.

      • Podunk@lemmy.world
        376·
        3 months ago

        And they have processes in place to make sure you wouldnt be on that jury.

        Vocal knowledge of jury nullification is grounds for dismissal.

        Prior intent to nullify is basically perjury. Now you are both in jail

        See, the system works! /s

        • explodicleEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I assume you mean it’s “basically perjury” given the questions they’ll ask. Because they keep asking us questions like that when I have jury duty, and I keep getting dismissed.

          Nonetheless, it’s still helpful to spread awareness of jury nullification. It forces the prosecution to pick the next most lenient person, and eventually so many people might know about nullification that it has to remain on the table.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      201·
      3 months ago

      Here’s a related headline. Haven’t read it yet:

      ‘I just wanted peace’: my 35-year fight to bring my abusive father to justice
      Carol Higgins was 15 when she first reported her father’s abuse to the police. They told her he wouldn’t be charged. But she refused to let it rest until he finally stood trial

      https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/20/carol-higgins-father-abuse-how-we-survive