In 1922 Thomas Lee Woolwine the Los Angeles District Attorney admits that chivalry makes it almost impossible to punish a woman for crimes they committed because juries are very reluctant to convict them:“The reason it is well nigh impossible to punish women for crimes of violence in particular is simple: It is because they are women, and because sex plays a vital part in every such trial. Men are innately loath to punish women. Women naturally arouse a feeling of false chivalry in men which allays and tempers their judgment upon the evidence. It is more difficult for a prosecutor to overcome this powerful factor than it is to convince a jury upon the state of facts presented.”
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