State v. Riley

PER CURIAM: 1

Appellant Betty Olivia Riley (hereinafter “Appellant”) appeals her second degree murder conviction in Cabell County, contending that she had been abused by the victim and that she should have been permitted to more fully develop the battered woman’s syndrome as a defense. She also contends that several comments by the State were prejudicial, that jury instructions offered by the defense were inappropriately amended, and that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated when police officers at the scene of the murder tested her for gun powder residue without her consent. Having…