Yes, some years ago, I researched a case in Canada of a woman who paid one "hit man" to kill her nonviolent husband. That "hit man" took her $25,000C and, rather risibly, walked away. So she tried again, this time paying an undercover police officer who caught the transaction on camera. She was arrested and charged, but found not guilty by the male judge because she claimed to feel afraid of her husband. There was no evidence of his violence against her and his only violent acts had occurred many years previously in bar fights with other men, but she parlayed her feelings into an acquittal. Oddly enough, the family court reached an entirely different conclusion, giving full custody of their daughter to the husband. His new wife told me he's utterly nonviolent and that she'd never contemplate a relationship with a man who was violent.