P. v. Trudell
Police responding to a domestic violence report found a woman with a bloody mouth and a small cut on her thigh. She told them that her boyfriend, defendant William George Trudell, had hit her with an ax. According to her testimony at trial, however, he merely used the ax to tap a plate that was on her lap, which broke and cut her thigh; if her mouth was bloody, it was because she bit her own lip.
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