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Humphrey (D) shot and killed Albert Hampton. D claimed that Albert had been beating on her and used the battered woman syndrome as a defense at trial. D presented expert evidence at trial regarding battered woman syndrome and the fact that D suffered from that syndrome. D and several witnesses confirmed Hampton's physical abuse of D. (However, the record is devoid of any forensic evidence regarding D's physical condition from the alleged abuse). The court instructed the jury, and the jury asked for and received clarification of the terms subjectively honest and objectively reasonable during deliberations and found D guilty of voluntary manslaughter with personal use of a firearm.

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