Battered Women as Criminal Defendants in the U.S. and Canada
Author: Anne L. Perry, Esq..
Source: Volume 17, Number 04, April/May 2012 , pp.54-55(2)
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Abstract:
This column is a discussion of recent cases in which battered women were criminal defendants: Commonwealth v. Adkinson, No. 10-P-432 (Mass. 2011) and R. v. Ryan , 2010, NSSC 114.Keywords: Massachusetts: Wife’s Conviction for Sexual Abuse of Sons Reversed Where BWS Rendered Her Incompetent to Stand Trial; Battered Woman Syndrome; BWS; Nova Scotia: Wife Acquitted of Solicitation of Husband’s Murder Based on Defense of Duress
Affiliations:
1: Contributing Editor at DVR.