A court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday for a Chicago woman charged with murdering her boyfriend. But some are calling for the charges to be dropped.
Dyanna Winchester is with the Women's Justice Institute. She was among those who gathered at Daley Plaza on Monday to say Keshia Golden was acting in self-defense when she stabbed her boyfriend, Calvin Sidney, one time, killing him, in their west side home in 2022 after he slammed her head into a counter while she was pregnant.
Winchester said, "You could not protect her then, but you can choose to punish her now. What is justice if it is ignored? What is accountability if only applied to the moment of crisis and not the pattern that led to it? Keshia Golden is not just a defendant, she is a woman who lived in fear, who sought help, who followed every step that society tells victims to take and was still left unprotected."
Julie Koehler is Keshia Golden's attorney and said while a cold breeze blew through Daley Plaza, "prosecuting a woman who is protecting herself and her unborn child from a man who is abusing her is a complete waste of County time and resources."
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office told WBBM Golden previously rejected the state’s offer to resolve the case, which included a plea to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, with no additional time served.
