The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
Cornell Cooper BROWN, Defendant and Appellant.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 2, 2004.
August 2, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William D. Farber, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Rafael, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Margaret E. Maxwell, Donald E. De Nicola, Victoria B. Wilson and John Yang, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Emberly Cross, San Francisco, for California Alliance Against Domestic Violence, California National Organization for Women, California Women's Law Center, Minnesota Program Development, Inc., NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Nancy K.D. Lemon, Erin C. Smith and Jim Fahey as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
KENNARD, J.
At defendant's trial on charges relating to domestic violence, the prosecution offered testimony from an expert witness to explain that domestic violence1 victims often later deny or minimize the assailant's conduct. Defendant objected. He contended such testimony did not fall within the scope of Evidence Code section 1107,2 which authorizes expert testimony on "battered women's syndrome." He argued...
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