Burning Bed Defense

The plot follows Hughes trial for the murder of her husband James Berlin Mickey Hughes following her setting fire to the bed he was sleeping in at their Dansville Michigan home on March 9 1977 and thirteen years of physical.

Burning bed defense. She was tired of it. Francine Hughes Wilson who inspired The Burning Bed dies at 69. Hughes said that after the trial book and movie his mother just wanted to put it all behind her.

This case is a classic example of what is sometimes described as the Burning Bed Defense There was a movie and book titled Burning Bed describing the true story of a long-abused Texas wife taking matters into her own hands and setting fire to her husband while he was sleeping. The story went on to become both a book and a TV movie called The Burning Bed. The Burning Bed and Jodi Arias.

The case became the subject of a book and a TV movie The Burning Bed starring Farrah Fawcett. The Burning Bed told the story of Francine Hughes a local woman who seven years earlier had been acquitted of murder after she poured gasoline around her sleeping ex. The defense worked.

Equally as important it would also establish the way law enforcement approaches the criminal act. The battered woman syndrome BWS expands the concept of legal self-defense. In the last three decades since The Burning Bed hit the screen starring Farrah Fawcett as Francine Hughes countless women have pleaded self defense after killing their abusers and most have been unsuccessful regardless of the merits of their claims.

The harrowing years of abuse that led up to that night were chronicled in The Burning Bed a book by Faith McNulty and later a deeply disturbing television movie starring Farrah Fawcett. Who wrote The Burning Bed. The Burning Bed is both a 1980 non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes and a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg.

A legal strategy served as a catalyst for all legislation regarding domestic abuse. The case became the subject of a book and a TV movie The Burning Bed starring Farrah Fawcett. Posted Apr 02 2013.