Voices for Victims: Teri
Survivor and Marsy's Law for Wisconsin State Chair Teri Jendusa Nicolai: "I was divorced from an abusive husband who tried to murder me. Going through the justice system, I didn't really have much of a voice."
Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin State Chair Teri Jendusa Nicolai became a prominent victims’ rights advocate after surviving a brutal attack by her ex-husband. “He beat me with a bat…. dumped me in a garbage can…. left me to die in a freezing cold storage locker. When I was rescued, I thought my ordeal was over, but I was wrong,” Teri says in the video. “The legal system sometimes made me feel like a victim all over again…like my voice didn’t matter. Marsy’s Law gives crime victims equal rights…ensuring their voices are always heard.”
"I was divorced from an abusive husband who tried to murder me. Going through the justice system, I didn't really have much of a voice," Teri says in the video. “We had 102 pieces of physical evidence, yet they still wanted to do a plea and not make him go through trial. At that point, I really didn’t have a say. Marsy's Law would give victims more of a voice."
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