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|facts=Daughter murdered mom’s boyfriend, Ogden. Mom is on trial for aiding/abetting daughter’s murder. D wants to introduce court documents that talk about Ogden’s behavior that allegedly caused D to fear Ogden. | |facts=Daughter murdered mom’s boyfriend, Ogden. Mom is on trial for aiding/abetting daughter’s murder. D wants to introduce court documents that talk about Ogden’s behavior that allegedly caused D to fear Ogden. | ||
|issues=Is the evidence admissible? | |issues=Is the evidence admissible? |
Latest revision as of 03:43, July 14, 2023
U.S. v. James | |
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Facts
Daughter murdered mom’s boyfriend, Ogden. Mom is on trial for aiding/abetting daughter’s murder. D wants to introduce court documents that talk about Ogden’s behavior that allegedly caused D to fear Ogden.
Issues
Is the evidence admissible?
Holding
The evidence is relevant and thus admissible, to be used to corroborate mom’s allegations. If he did the crimes, Ogden’s more likely to have bragged convincingly, which would create legit fear in mom (i.e., gets to state of mind).
Comments
It doesn’t matter that the chain of inferences isn’t water tight for relevance.