Legal Opinion
Ward v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 7, 1985No. BA-358PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
470 So.2d 100 (1985)
Sharon WARD, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. BA-358.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
June 7, 1985.
W. Paul Thompson, DeFuniak Springs, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Gary L. Printy, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
MILLS, Judge.
Ward appeals from her conviction for second-degree murder, alleging that the trial court erred in rejecting expert testimony on the "battered wife syndrome." We affirm.
Ward intended to present the testimony of two expert witnesses at trial. The first was to describe Ward's psychological traits as gleaned from an…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hawthorne v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
3Cited by4 opinions
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