United States v. Vega-Penarete

MEMORANDUM AND RECOMMENDATION AND ORDER

CHARLES K. McCOTTER, Jr., United States Magistrate Judge.

The United States seeks a Motion in Li-mine to prevent the introduction into evidence by the defendant of the mental condition known as Battered Wife Syndrome. Specifically, the government requests that expert testimony of the mental condition of the defendant as to whether the defendant’s actions were the result of Battered Wife Syndrome be excluded pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12.2(b), for failure to give notice of such testimony. In the alternative, the government requests that…