California Court of Appeal

The defense of battered women-s syndrome, Evidence Code section 1107, does not provide an inference of honest and reasonable belief of immediate harm, sufficient for the defense of duress, where defendant admitted advance knowledge of her codefendant's criminal intent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• FIDLER, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janyce Keiko Imata Blair, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrneand Lance E. Winters, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.