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Criminal

Sep. 24, 2003

Panel Reverses Battered Woman's Conviction

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying a San Diego judge improperly gutted her defense that she irrationally feared for her life when she shot her husband to death.

By Leslie Simmons
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday reversed an Oceanside battered woman's second-degree murder conviction, saying a San Diego jud...

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