A Manitoba woman who stabbed her longtime partner to death has been acquitted of manslaughter after her lawyers argued she suffered from battered woman syndrome.
"The accused acted in self-defence and must be acquitted for this tragic and unfortunate act that took the life of the deceased," Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Joan McKelvey ruled in a decision released this week.
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