Alleged battering victim gets 6 months house arrest for killing boyfriend

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'A Concord woman who claimed that her boyfriend had died of medical problems pleaded no contest Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter for smothering him with a pillow, a killing her attorney portrayed as the act of a domestic violence victim.

Dava Alizabeth-Ann Steen, 47, was sentenced to six months in jail, which she can serve at home while under electronic monitoring, said her attorney, Public Defender Robin Lipetzky.
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Steen was initially charged with murder. Judge Garrett Grant of Contra Costa County Superior Court sentenced her to six months at a hearing in Martinez on Wednesday as part of a plea deal.

Lipetzky said Steen wanted to "address the issues in her life that gave rise to this situation in the first place, which includes a long history of domestic violence in a relationship in which she was the victim and (Bennett) was the batterer."'