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Government

May 28, 2003

Habeas Law In Trouble

SACRAMENTO - Susan Deering spent 23 years behind bars for killing her abusive boyfriend, yet jurors never heard a word about battered women's syndrome before they convicted her of second-degree murder in 1980.

        By Hudson Sangree
        Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SACRAMENTO - Susan Deering spent 23 years behind bars for killing her abusive boyfriend, yet jurors never heard a word about battered women's syndrome before they convicted her of second-degree murder in 1980.
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