Court Opinion

ID: 9752014
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 17:29:30.735559+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:51:37.351534
License: Public Domain

ROWLEY, President Judge,
concurring.
I join in the Majority’s decision in all regards, save for its statement “that [battered woman syndrome] evidence is admissible [in a homicide trial] as probative evidence of the defendant’s state of mind as it relates to a theory of self-defense.” It is my belief that the Majority’s conclusion in this regard is dicta because it is unnecessary to a disposition of the instant appeal. A specific holding concerning the admissibility of battered woman syndrome evidence in homicide cases is better left for a day when that issue has been squarely presented to this Court.
TAMILIA and POPOVICH, JJ., join in this concurring statement by ROWLEY, P.J.