Interesting…this could be! Here I have been assuming that her issue was based on her negative relationship with JFD (I came to this because of various events where MT and family denigrated JFD and her mother), but yes, this could be. Except that MT could have left fD at any time, unlike JFD. MT was not married to fD, and owned no assets in common with him, and most importantly, had no children with him. According to MTs social media, she is a woman who owns her own business, and had many, many marketable skills. I know that domestic abuse is complicated, and there are many types of DA, but there isn’t any evidence that she suffered from it, or tried to remove herself and her daughter from his presence or influence-and her daughter’s father made no attempt to intervene. This defense tactic is a pretty good guess, but as a juror, I wouldn’t buy it. Especially when she could have made some self-serving statements to the police after fD’s death, if she was afraid of him before he died.