Jane Hurshman Corkum (Jan 25, 1949 - Feb 22, 1992) was a Canadian housewife who killed her abusive husband Billy Stafford in 1982 and was famously acquitted. The Crown later appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and she pled out to manslaughter and received a six-month sentence, and was released after two months. After her release, she spoke out about spousal abuse, then an all-but-ignored subject.

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  • Jane Stafford, Jane Whynot
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  • Jane Hurshman Corkum (Jan 25, 1949 - Feb 22, 1992) was a Canadian housewife who killed her abusive husband Billy Stafford in 1982 and was famously acquitted. The Crown later appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and she pled out to manslaughter and received a six-month sentence, and was released after two months. After her release, she spoke out about spousal abuse, then an all-but-ignored subject. On Feb 23, 1992, her body was found in a car on the Halifax waterfront, dead from a single gunshot wound.
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  • Lunenburg Regional Vocational School
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  • Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia
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  • Halifax waterfront
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  • possible suicide
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  • Jane Hurshman
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  • nursing assistant, womens advocate
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  • Jane Hurshman Corkum (Jan 25, 1949 - Feb 22, 1992) was a Canadian housewife who killed her abusive husband Billy Stafford in 1982 and was famously acquitted. The Crown later appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and she pled out to manslaughter and received a six-month sentence, and was released after two months. After her release, she spoke out about spousal abuse, then an all-but-ignored subject.
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