Jurors in the Wanda Stanley murder trial have heard testimony from an expert witness offered by the prosecution, challenging Stanleys claim that the former nurse shot and killed her allegedly abusive husband, John, while sitting in a back seat of their Nissan Armada SUV.
Two of the Stanleys four children, a daughter, and a son, have testified that they witnessed verbal and physical abuse by their father against their mother. Following their testimony in a hearing last week, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero allowed the Battered Woman Syndrome to be used in defending Stanley in the killing.
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