CRIMINAL LAW — EXCUSES — SEVENTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT EVIDENCE OF BATTERING AND ITS EFFECTS MAY SUPPORT A DURESS DEFENSE. — United States v. Dingwall, 6 F.4th 744 (7th Cir. 2021).

The article informs that Seventh Circuit's ruling in United States v. Dingwall advances the feminist reasonableness project by allowing evidence of battering's effects to support a duress defense, expanding the equitable reasonableness analyses beyond traditional standards. The topics include the intersection of feminist perspectives with legal standards, the application of battering evidence in duress defenses and the potential for broader equitable reasonableness analyses in various contexts.