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Competing proposed instructions regarding battered spouse syndrome
The court accepted language allowing jurors who found the battered spouse syndrome evidence credible to consider it when assessing the reasonable necessity of force against imminent unlawful force by Torres. The language also permitted belief or disbelief of all or part of that testimony and was to appear within both force instructions.
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The accepted instruction explained how jurors could consider credible battered spouse syndrome evidence when assessing whether a person in Boone's circumstances would reasonably believe force was necessary.