Domestic violence advocate seeks to have murder charge dismissed
Rachel Bellesen pictured in Lakeside. (Photo provided by Bellesen)
The Abbie Shelter in Kalispell has launched a no-holds-barred effort to have the state dismiss, with prejudice, a deliberate homicide charge that was brought last October against Rachel Bellesen, a domestic violence advocate who shot her ex-husband after he allegedly attempted to rape her near a fishing spot on the Clark Fork River in Paradise.
The nonprofit’s executive director, Hilary Shaw, released a call to action last Friday, requesting that the public contact the Office of Attorney General by May 10 to ask that Bellesen’s case be dismissed, with prejudice...
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