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Question about one witness...


When that one woman testified, saying she and her husband had given Beckwith a ride, and he told them, that he had killed Medgar Evers, and that they'd better not say anything about giving him a ride, because he wasn't scared to kill again...why did the defense attorney bring up that about her husband being abusive? How did that have anything to do with her credibility?

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That she's probably mentally unstable, and therefore not a credible witness.

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