strangulation

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Smock had testified as an expert on strangulation as a witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

A jury found PC Richard Williams, 43, not guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm and a second charge of intentional strangulation following a seven-day trial in Caernarfon.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

Thirty-six percent of those deaths were attributed to accidental suffocation or strangulation.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

In a follow-up text, she says she told the authorities “this was not an attack” and that strangulation “did not occur and should be removed” from the case file “immediately.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck