Byline: George Will
WASHINGTON -- After having sex with her husband, who then fell asleep, the Denver woman, who was having an extramarital affair at the time and had recently taken out a large life insurance policy on her husband, shot him. She then disordered the house to suggest that the killer had been a burglar, and went to a disco with her sister.
Her conviction was a setback for Lenore Walker, who testified as an expert witness that the woman's behavior was consistent with the ``battered woman syndrome.''
Walker says a battered woman is one ``repeatedly subjected to any forceful physical or psychological behavior by a man in order to coerce her to do something he wants her to do …
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