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- Battered_woman_defense comment "The battered woman defense is a defense used in court that the person accused of an assault/murder was suffering from battered person syndrome at the material time. Because the defense is most commonly used by women, it is usually characterised in court as battered woman syndrome or battered wife syndrome. There is currently no medical classification for this specific syndrome in the sense used by lawyers, though it has historically been invoked in court systems.".
- Q4869729 comment "The battered woman defense is a defense used in court that the person accused of an assault/murder was suffering from battered person syndrome at the material time. Because the defense is most commonly used by women, it is usually characterised in court as battered woman syndrome or battered wife syndrome. There is currently no medical classification for this specific syndrome in the sense used by lawyers, though it has historically been invoked in court systems.".