NO WAY OUT

THE NATION KNOWS MORE NOW ABOUT HOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRAPS ITS VICTIMS. WILL THIS AWARENESS HELP KAY WEEKLEY?

When traveling through parts of West Virginia, it is easy to start feeling a bit haunted by the Hatfields and the McCoys. For one thing, if you go to lunch with a bunch of Boone County lawyers at Freda's, their favorite hangout, you may find yourself sitting next to Burr Hatfield. For another, the folks down here routinely make jokey references to the infamous dispute as if it had happened yesterday. But all family violence is not alike. And what most infuriates Marcella Kay Weekley's advocates--the band of lawyers, friends and relatives battling to get her out of jail--is when people...

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