State v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 66 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “`Relevant evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pacheco · State v. Balderama

2. “The evidence of prior suicide attempts is not appropriately analogized to prior bad acts which are inadmissible to show character, as provided for under Rule [404(b)]. Rather, the evidence here was of a serious, long-term mental illness treatable with medication and specific manifestations of that illness. We hold that evidence of suicidal tendencies of a deceased should not be considered character evidence for purposes of Rule [404(b)]. Suicidal dispositions typically stem from mental illness, not from a person’s “bad character” or trait of character.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bolaski