Battered-Woman Syndrome By Marianna Bettman on June 14, 2011 State v. Goff, 128 Ohio St.3d 169, 2010-Ohio-6317. In 1990, in a murder case in which a woman shot her husband while he slept, the Ohio Supreme Court first recognized the battered-woman syndrome as a defense in a criminal case. In that case, State v. Koss, Brenda Koss and a number of other…
