Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

In Bonner v. State, 740 So. 2d 439 (Ala. Crim. App. 1998), the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals considered whether expert testimony on battered woman syndrome was admissible to support a self-defense claim.

In Harrington v. State, 858 So. 2d 278 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002), the conviction of a woman found guilty of reckless manslaughter for shooting and killing her husband was reviewed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

In Moore v. City of Leeds, 1 So. 3d 145 (Ala. Crim. App. 2008), the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reviewed the admissibility of a domestic-violence victim’s statement made to her treating physician. The defendant had been convicted of third-degree domestic violence, harassment, and harassing communications after assaulting his ex-wife, Karen Kelly, during an altercation in a moving vehicle. At trial, the physician who treated Ms.

In Williams v. State, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals examined the constitutionality of the state’s forcible sodomy statute, which excluded married individuals from prosecution for forcibly sodomizing their spouses. Mr.