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Final Verdict - excerpt

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"The defense not only presented what this Court found to be credible witness testimony, but also compelling expert witness testimony of the defendant’s state of mind due to the years of domestic violence she experienced." 

"As a result of the overwhelming evidence of abuse presented to this court through both lay and expert witnesses, it is the finding of this Court that the defendant, Catina Curley, acted in self-defense when she shot her husband, Renaldo Curley, and was reasonable in her belief that she was in imminent danger of losing her life or receiving great bodily harm."

After Decade in Prison, New Orleans Woman who Shot Husband Goes Free as Killing is Deemed Justified

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New Orleans Woman Suffered from Battered Woman Syndrome before Shooting Husband, Experts Say

PBS Newshour  

For victims, president’s praise for aide accused of abuse has ‘chilling effect’

Feb 9, 2018 

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The Atlantic

The Link Between Natural Disasters and Domestic Abuse

September 28, 2016