Domestic violence victims are often criminalized. A California bill wants to change that
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Many say the bill would help survivors be heard, broadening the range of people able to petition to see their sentence reviewedIn 1995, on the day before Kelly Savage-Rodriguez planned to flee her abusive husband, she ran some final errands while her children, ages three and one, napped. She hoped to take them on the early morning Amtrak from Porterville, California, to Los Angeles and stay with her brother, but when she returned, she said, she found that her husband had beaten and killed her...

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