Mechele Linehan, who is about to go on trial for the 1996 murder of former fiancé, Kent Leppink, was a stripper at the time the murder occurred (another former fiancé, John Carlin III, was convicted of this murder this past spring).

However, the jury isn’t going to know that she peeled off her clothes in an Alaskan bar to make a living. Instead, they will be told that she worked “in a bar” (technically true).

Her defense lawyer was pleased with the judge’s decision on this matter: “They get she made money, they get everything else, what they don’t get to do is essentially rely on cultural archetypes about women, that women are either Madonnas or whores, they’re either gold-diggers or door mats.”

And while we’re all about busting open “cultural archetypes about women,” a murder trial isn’t such a great testing ground for that.

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