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In the culmination of a sensational eight-day trial that captivated headlines, on Jan. 22, 1994, a jury found Lorena Bobbitt not guilty by reason of insanity of slicing off her husband John Wayne Bobbitt's penis the summer before. Lorena had been charged with malicious wounding and faced up to 20 years behind bars.
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