On June 14 I posted my column on the Ohio Supreme Court decision in State v. Goff, in which the Court was faced with the issue of whether a woman who had murdered her husband and raised the battered-woman syndrome as a defense could be compelled to submit to a psychiatric examination by the
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Battered-Woman Syndrome
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Commentary, Ohio Supreme Court Watch
In 1990, in a murder case in which a woman shot her husband while he slept, the Ohio Supreme Court first recognized the battered-woman syndrome as a defense in a criminal case. In that case, State v. Koss, Brenda Koss and a number of other…