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bruised and battered

Injured and/or thoroughly worn down, as from an assault or an exhausting, physically trying experience. He drank too much at the bar, got into a fight, and showed up at our door all bruised and battered. The home team, though bruised and battered, emerged victorious from the tough match.

dust off the batter

In baseball, to throw a pitch at or very close to the body of the batter. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. Don't be afraid to dust off the batter a bit if he's crowding the plate.

batter down

To remove or destroy a particular structure. A noun can be used between "batter" and "down." Which wall will the construction crew batter down?

batter up

1. verb To harm or damage someone or something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "batter" and "up." That accident battered up the door of my car. I think that kid will listen to us if we batter him up a bit and scare him.

2. noun An expression used to summon the next batter to home plate in a baseball game. Let's get this game started. Batter up!

batter someone or something up

to damage or harm someone or something. Max threatened to batter Lefty up within an inch of his life. Who battered up this desk?

batter something down

to smash or break down something, such as a wall, door, or any defensive structure. Do they have to batter anything down as part of the construction project? They battered down the wall as a first step in enlarging the house.

battered

mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man, was I battered. I will never drink another drop.

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As this study represents one of the first attempts to assess the influence of a more general form of expert testimony on battering and its effects, it is important that future researchers attempt to disentangle exactly what aspects of the expert information are likely to be utilized by the jurors and how.

The findings from our study, although somewhat preliminary to draw firm conclusions from them, suggest that a reformulation of expert evidence about battering that focuses on the battered woman's social context, as opposed to her psychological functioning, holds considerable promise.

As this review hopefully highlights, and as others have suggested, treatment of expert evidence on battering and its impact on women need not be static, and reforms can be directed towards the transformations of the evidence's content to reflect the social realities, as opposed to psychological states, of battered women.

This, she notes, only serves to undermine the important advances that have been achieved by the admission of expert evidence on battering and its effects.

A comprehensive report prepared by the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women (NCDBW) analyzed the use of expert testimony on battering and its effects in over 250 state and federal court decisions.

Expert testimony on battering and its effects has been accepted by ninety percent of the states in cases involving traditional self-defense situations.

Examination of the expert testimony cases on battering has suggested that a perspective like battered woman syndrome, which either emphasizes victimization or which is susceptible to being characterized as victimization, raises serious problems for women in theory and practice.

Similarly, Walker notes that "the legal system uses BWS to describe both the clinical syndrome and the dynamics of the battering relationship.

The tension eventually escalates, however, and the woman is subjected to a severe battering incident ("acute battering" phase).

More than fifty percent of the states have found testimony Ion battering and its effects] relevant to assessment of the reasonableness of the [woman]'s belief that she was in danger of imminent harm.

Two-thirds of the states have found testimony on battering and its effect to be relevant to the determination of why the woman did not leave the relationship or to explain other conduct (e.

The Culture of Battering and Role of Mediation in Domestic Violence Cases, 46 SMU L.

Expert evidence and its impact on jurors' decisions in homicide trials involving battered women

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