Susan Greenberg, a 19-year-old who killed her abusive boyfriend, spent 19 years in prison before seeking to have her sentence overturned under California's "Battered Woman Syndrome" law, which allows women convicted of murder to appeal based on evidence of abuse.
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Susan Greenberg, a 19-year-old woman, was imprisoned for 19 years after killing her abusive boyfriend. She is now seeking to have her sentence overturned under a California state law that permits women convicted of murder to reexamine their cases.