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Mexico's prosecutors withdraw case against woman sentenced to prison for killing man raping her
Roxana Ruiz shouts slogans during a march in memory of Diana Velazquez, who was making a call outside her home in 2017 when she was disappeared, raped and killed, in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico, July 2, 2022
MEXICAN prosecutors have withdrawn a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.
In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defence.”
It also ordered her to pay more than $16,000 (£12,855) in reparations to the family of her attacker.
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