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.

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    3 months ago

    Just knowing about jury nullification can get you dismissed

    That’s because it’s not really a thing.

    The jury doesn’t have the option of finding guilty, or not guilty, or nullify.

    If you ask a potential juror, “will you do your job of finding the accused guilty or not guilty?” and their answer is “what about nullification?” then they’re basically telling you that they do not understand the requirement and are incapable of performing the job.

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      3 months ago

      Nullification is finding them not guilty, in this case due to the whole story.

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        3 months ago

        It’s not, it’s saying they are not guilty in order to avoid penalties for the defendant, despite knowing that they perpetrated the crime. That is quite obviously a perversion of the court.