United States v. Kathy Evelyn Willis

How courts have described this case

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

• “Evidence that the defendant is suffering from the battered woman’s syndrome is inherently subjective” and therefore not relevant to a duress defense
• “[T]he Johnson court found that subjective evidence of the battered woman’s syndrome could not be taken into account in determining criminal liability and thus could not upset the convictions.”
• “[SJubjective evidence [of BWS] is irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).