Thompson v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• self-defense instruction refused where wife shot sleeping husband because there was no lethal threat to wife contemporaneous with the killing
• self-defense instruction inappropriate because no confrontational circumstance at the time that woman killed her sleeping husband
• woman who killed her abusive husband while he was sleeping did not show that she was in imminent danger at the time of the killing
• woman who killed her abusive husband'while he was sleeping did not show that she was in imminent danger at the time of the killing
• two expert witnesses, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, testified at trial regarding the battered woman syndrome
• even battered woman’s self-defense claim must be measured by objective reasonableness standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).