Battered-Person Syndrome

1. If one's sibling was being abused by a spouse, one's first course of action upon being made aware of the abuse would be to do everything possible to isolate the sibling from the abuser. That would be a significant challenge because it is commonplace for people who observe abusive relationships to ask "why the woman did not leave despite opportunities to do so which seem objectively apparent to an outsider, why she continued to love someone who hurt her, or why she did not seek help from medical providers or law enforcement personnel" (Maguigan, 1998, p. 50). If the sibling could not be persuaded to leave the relationship despite chances to do so and were later charged with a crime against the abusive husband, then the challenge for a legal defense would be to explain that dynamic via expert testimony.

One's inclination would be to want the sibling to have every advantage in court, including the option to benefit from expert-witness testimony that could help the court and jurors understand an account of the sibling's behavior. The content of the testimony would come down to accounting for the lashing-out without

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