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NIXON v. U.S.

No. 96-CF-760.

728 A.2d 582 (1999)

Gregory E. NIXON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 11, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Phillip McGuire, for appellant.

Megan E. Hills, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman, and Shanlon Wu, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge. SCHWELB, Associate Judge, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The principal question presented in this domestic violence case is whether the trial judge committed reversible error by permitting the prosecution to introduce expert testimony on the subject of the battered woman syndrome1 in order to explain, inter alia, the conduct of the complaining witness in response to the alleged battering. We hold that the judge did not abuse his discretion by admitting the challenged...

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