Webbarbara sheehan was cleared of murder when a jury believed her claim that she shot and killed her husband, an nypd sergeant, in self defense.

Webjustia columnist and cornell law professor sherry colb comments on a recent case in which a queens, new york, woman named barbara sheehan was.

Kill or be killed.

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Webbarbara sheehan's battered wife defense had saved her from a conviction for killing her abusive police sergeant husband, but she'll have to surrender and begin.

An alternate juror in the case of a queens woman who killed her husband in a hail of 11 bullets while he was shaving said tuesday that she would have voted to acquit.

| barbara sheehan, a queens woman who killed her husband, a former police sergeant, in a hail of 11 bullets while he was shaving was found.

But she is now.

Of a viciously battered wife and a shrewish one.

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Webnew york (pix11) — six years ago, barbara sheehan made a fateful choice:

On february 18, 2008, her husband, retired nypd.

After suffering abuse for nearly two decades at the hands of her.

Webin the first two weeks of barbara sheehan’s murder trial, the queens jury heard competing narratives:

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