Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 15, 1985.
ANSTEAD, Chief Judge.
Shirley Terry appeals her conviction of manslaughter with a firearm. She contests the trial court's refusal to admit expert opinion evidence on the battered woman syndrome and evidence of her mental state on the issue of the voluntariness of her post-arrest statement. We reverse.
Terry was charged with second degree murder in the shooting death, on July 8, 1982, of her boyfriend...
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