Nguyen v. State

Hunstein, Justice.

Thu Ha Nguyen was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault for the shooting and wounding of her husband and stepdaughter. The Court of Appeals affirmed her conviction, holding that the trial court properly excluded expert testimony on the battered person syndrome because verbal threats alone, unaccompanied by actual or attempted violence, cannot authorize reliance upon that syndrome, Nguyen v. State, 234 Ga. App. 185 (1) (505 SE2d 846) (1998), and that the trial court did not err by not allowing an expert to testify regarding the differences between Asian and American…