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.




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