History: “On May 24, 1980, the defendant, Gladys Kelly, stabbed her husband, Ernest, with a pair of scissors” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In her seven years of marriage, when her husband, Ernest, was drunk, he always attacks Gladys (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In addition, when he was drunk, he always threatens that if she tries to leave him, then he will kill her (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). On that day, Gladys and her daughter, Annette, “asked Ernest for money to buy food” however, while they are getting home, Ernest was drunk and started attacking her by choking, punching, and bit her leg until “two men from the crowd separated them” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). Then, Gladys fears that Annette has pushed around the crowd so she left and…show more content… Kelly was charged for murdering her husband by stabbing him with a pair of scissor on May 24,1980 (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In addition, she was also charged with provocation (Skelton, “State v.…show more content… Kelly”). However, the state thinks that Kelly “was an aggressor, that she consciously intended to kill her husband, and that she certainly was not acting in self-defense” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). The expert witness testimony was relevant to what Kelly “believe at the time of the stabbing, and was thus material, to establish the honesty of her stated belief that she was in imminent danger of death” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). “The State argued that there is no need to bolster defendant's credibility with expert testimony concerning the battering because the State did not attempt to undermine defendant's testimony concerning her prior mistreatment at the hands of her husband” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In other word, the State did not criticize the defendant’s testimony on the abuse of her husband. “In her summation, the prosecutor suggested that had Ernest Kelly lived, he might have told a different story from the one Gladys told” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In other word, we do not that Ms. Kelly’s story is true or not that there is only one point of view since her husband is died. “Moreover, defendant's credibility was also attacked in other ways” (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). Gladys Kelly was once convicted of robbery, nine year before the stabbing which destroy her credibility (Skelton, “State v. Kelly”). In addition, “Gladys Kelly's use of alcohol
