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Kentucky GOP lawmaker indicted on assault, accused of strangling woman with Ethernet cable

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ed-arrest-gop/

As a freshman Kentucky legislator, state Rep. Robert S. Goforth (R) joined his colleagues to pass a bill that would make it easier to prosecute strangulation.

Last week, that same bill — now a state law after it passed at the urging of domestic violence advocates — became a factor in his own case: A grand jury in Laurel County, Ky., on Friday indicted Goforth, a former candidate for governor, on one count of first-degree strangulation and one count of assault in the fourth