If a Women Has Killed Her Partner, She Can Plead

If a women has killed her partner, she can plead the "battered women defense"

A) and it is very successful in mock jury studies in overcoming standard judicial instructions on self defense
B) and the research evidence strongly favors the existence of a syndrome of learned helplessness in almost all women who have been charged with murder of an intimate partner
C) even if she was a partner in a crime if she claimed she committed the crime under duress
D) but she will get a harsher sentence if found guilty than a man convicted of an IPV murder