#367: Chrystul Kizer & Affirmative Defense

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Chrystul Kizer was seventeen years old when she was arrested for allegedly killing the man who was sex trafficking her and who had used her to create images of child sex abuse. She is now fighting for her right to use the "Affirmative Defense" law to defend herself in court against charges of first degree intentional homicide and arson. The Wisconsin Supreme Court and prosecutors are debating the use of this defense which Jim breaks down for us. We talk about who this law was intended to protect, who the real victim is in this situation as well as the shocking details in Chrystul's case.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to real crime profile ad free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:06.8	I believe the $1 million cash bonuses is appropriate.
0:11.4	12 news was there in court when $1 million bail was set for Crystal Kaiser. The Milwaukee team is charged with shooting, killing and setting Randall Valar on fire in his Kenosha home last June.
0:22.3	She was just 17 at the time. And what do you think that people need to know about
0:27.4	how why he died?
0:32.4	The case now making national headlines and in a jailhouse interview with the Washington Post, Kaiser now alleges she killed Valar because he used her for sex trafficking. Supporters of Kaiser say it was self defense.
0:44.5	She had been trying to get out of the whatever arrangement that they had. And he was threatening to kill her.
0:52.4	In court last week, her attorney, a public defender, argued the murder falls under state law called affirmative defense, which acquits sex trafficking victims of certain crimes.
1:02.0	But a judge disagreed saying it only applies to prostitution or child trafficking cases.
1:06.9	You believe that she went there with a plan to kill Mr. Valar.
1:11.3	That's right from the stark Kenosha County District attorney Mike Graveley says he's been pressured to drop all charges, but argues Valar's murder was premeditated and says she bragged about it after on social media.
1:23.4	And then during the course of the evening, she texts multiple people talking about how she is planning to do it that she has Googled and that it's going to create a splatter.
1:33.5	Valar's house here has since been torn down, but the district attorney says the day they found his body was the same day they were about to charge him with child sex crimes.
1:43.1	I mean, it's ridiculous that the police knew what was going on with Valar and allowed her to continue.
1:50.4	If somebody commits crimes against you, even horrible crimes, that you aren't allowed to go and kill them in response.
2:05.5	And the state's position is that if Ms. Kaiser is arguing that she did this because she didn't want to be trafficked anymore, that she shot him because she was tired as she alleges of him touching her leg in this instance.
2:32.5	I think it was more than her leg.
2:36.2	There's an allegation of that in the past, but the day in question here.
2:40.1	Mr. Barber, I'm sorry, but he did so much.
2:43.6	Come on, you can make this argument, but we all owe the Constitution says that we need to treat victims with dignity and respect.
2:53.0	Part of that is acknowledging what actually happened to them.
2:56.2	Ms. Kaiser, undeniably here, was a victim of human trafficking, and so I understand the point you're trying to make, but I think to say that she did this because he was touching her leg is just so far from what actually was going on.
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