{"id":82,"date":"2009-10-31T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-10-31T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:53:59","slug":"domestic-violence-a-local-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/2009\/10\/31\/domestic-violence-a-local-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Violence: A local story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><strong>MAY 8, 2009: JULIUS SCOTT, 74, of Dorchester <\/strong>was stabbed to death allegedly by his girlfriend, Verna Sewell, 64. Sewell allegedly confessed to stabbing Scott after he hit her with a brick. Sewell told police the two were having an argument and struggled over the knife, and \u201csomehow it ended up in his chest.\u201d In 2004, Sewell pled guilty to allegedly choking her granddaughter. At that time, a relative told police Sewell had \u201cmental health issues and frequently drank to excess.\u201d Scott also had a history of arrests including a charge of assaulting a previous girlfriend, which was later dismissed. Sewell pleaded not guilty to the charge of first degree murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Taken from \u201cDomestic Violence Homicide Narratives,\u201d p. 3, <em>Jane Doe, Inc<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/know\/DV_Homicide_Narratives_Oct2008-Sept2009.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/know\/DV_Homicide_Narratives_Oct2008-Sept2009.pdf<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 8, 2009: JULIUS SCOTT, 74, of Dorchester was stabbed to death allegedly by his girlfriend, Verna Sewell, 64. Sewell allegedly confessed to stabbing Scott after he hit her with a brick. Sewell told police the two were having an argument and struggled over the knife, and \u201csomehow it ended up in his chest.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1980,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13615],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-domestic-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1980"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hblsasj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}