Hill, Presiding Justice. The defendant was charged with murdering her live-in boyfriend. Her defense was that she shot him in self-defense. The case is before us to consider whether an expert’s opinion regarding the “battered woman syndrome” was admissible at trial, or was properly excluded on the basis that the expert’s opinion as to the fear of a battered woman and this defenda…
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