State v. Haines

{¶ 1} On January 24, 2003, a jury in the Lake County Court of Common Pleas found appellant Bryan Haines guilty of multiple counts of kidnapping, abduction, and domestic violence. All of the counts related to the same victim, Haines’s live-in girlfriend, Jacqueline Bohley, and arose from incidents that occurred in March and April 2002. This case concerns whether the trial court properly admitted *394expert testimony regarding battered-woman syndrome as part of the state’s casein-chief.

{¶ 2} Haines and Bohley met on December 26, 1997. By July 1998, they had begun living together in the home of…