People v. Aris

How courts have described this case

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• self-defense instruction not justified because battered wife was not facing immediate peril when she shot and killed sleeping husband
• battered woman did not face immediate peril when she shot sleeping husband and therefore self-defense instruction was not justified
• battered woman’s syndrome is not a mental illness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).