Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 11, 1995                   TAG: 9501110090
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: FAIRFAX                                  LENGTH: Short

A YEAR AFTER 1ST TRIAL, BOBBITTS STILL MARRIED

After a two-week trial that began Jan. 10, 1994, Lorena Bobbitt was acquitted by reason of insanity in the attack on her husband seven months earlier.

``She is still under court supervision and receiving therapy in the area,'' said Lisa Kemler, part of a team of lawyers who successfully argued that emotional and physical abuse at the hands of John Bobbitt drove his wife to mental illness.

Lorena Bobbitt and her new attorney, Joseph Maloof, did not respond to a request for an interview. She is working as a secretary in his Fairfax office and living nearby with her parents, Kemler said.

Bobbitt, 25, claimed she could not recall many of the events of June 23, 1993, when she fled the couple's Prince William County apartment with her husband's penis in one hand and a red-handled kitchen knife in the other.

She sobbed on the stand as she told jurors how her husband taunted her, roughed her up and raped her during a stormy four-year marriage.

John Bobbitt, 27, was acquitted in a separate trial of sexually abusing his wife, and he denied any abuse during testimony in his wife's trial.

Lorena Bobbitt filed for divorce in July 1993, but the case still is pending. Under Virginia law, the couple may divorce after a one-year separation, but must file additional papers to do so.

Both Bobbitts still intend to divorce, their lawyers said.