Domestic Violence Expert Properly Allowed In Wife Battering Case, 8th Circuit Says

Mealey's (June 30, 2017, 11:00 AM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — A man’s 30-year prison sentence for beating and raping his wife on an Indian reservation was affirmed June 29 by the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found no error in the trial court’s allowance of expert testimony about domestic violence victims (United States of America v. Denny Johnson, Sr., No. 16-3483, 8th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11585)....