se of a violent fight is usually not able to use battery as a defense. There is an obvious fallacy in this way of thinking. Because men are generally bigger and stronger than women, a battered wife certainly can't be expected to fight back with the same strength as her husband.
Another perception of the legal system which fails to help battered women who kill can be seen in the state laws which define self-defense "as occurring only during or at the point of an attack that is deemed murderous." According to this reasoning, if a woman has been repeatedly abused and she kills her husband while he is sleeping (because otherwise she would not be able to fight back against him), this would be seen as cold-blooded murder rather than self-defense. This legal attitude furth
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