Battered Woman Syndrome

• Manslaughter conviction upheld for Alberta woman who said she acted in self-defence

  A southern Alberta woman who stabbed her common-law partner to death has been unsuccessful in having her conviction overturned.

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  May 3, 2021
  
• Alberta woman who killed husband, dumped body in slough appeals sentence

  Helen Naslund was sentenced in October 2020 to 18 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the 2011 shooting of 49-year-old Miles Naslund on a farm near Holden, Alta.

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  Feb 26, 2021
  
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• Appeal ruling issued for Alberta woman convicted of murdering husband in 2014

  A panel of Alberta judges issued a ruling Wednesday on the murder conviction appeal from a former teacher who killed her common-law husband. The decision was not unanimous.

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  Apr 3, 2019
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• Former Alberta teacher convicted of murdering husband granted bail

  An Alberta woman sentenced to life in prison for killing her husband and setting her home on fire has been granted bail pending her appeal.

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  Feb 13, 2017
• Alberta woman found guilty in husband’s death ineligible for parole for 13 years

  A former Alberta teacher convicted of second-degree murder in her husband's 2014 death has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 13 years.

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  Jan 19, 2017
• Former Alberta teacher found guilty of second-degree murder in husband’s death

  The jury in Deborah Doonanco's trial also found the former elementary school teacher guilty of arson and interfering with human remains in Kevin Feland's death.

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  Nov 29, 2016
• Closing arguments made in murder trial of former Alberta teacher

  The Crown and the defence painted very different versions of what happened when a former Alberta teacher killed her common-law partner in 2014 as they delivered their closing arguments in Deborah Doonanco's second-degree murder trial.

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  Nov 29, 2016
• ‘I shot him and I ran’: former Alberta teacher cross-examined during murder trial

  Cross-examination got underway Friday in St. Paul, Alta. in the second-degree murder trial of Deborah Doonanco. She's accused of killing her common-law partner.

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  Nov 4, 2016