State v. Kelly

Supreme Court of Washington · Decided 1984-06-28

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Stafford, J. Petitioner, Ivy Gail Kelly, appeals her conviction for second degree murder. The State did not *190 object, at trial or on appeal, to expert testimony on the applicability of the "battered woman syndrome" as explanatory of petitioner's actions under a claim of self-defense. The issue before us is whether evidence of petitioner's alleged prior aggressive acts i…

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