Women's Right To Self-Defense
June, 1979
Because he already had helped another man rape her and had warned her he might come back to kill her, and because she was afraid, Inez Garcia took a .22 rifle and fatally shot Miguel Jimenez in Soledad, California, on a March evening in 1974. She was charged with murder--and convicted. In 1977, at her second trial after successful appeal, she was acquitted and her actions were vindicated. Still controversial, her case symbolizes a woman's right to fight back when sexually assaulted.The FBI repor...
