166 Conn. App. 35 - State v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Section 4-4 (a) (2) [of the Connecticut Code of Evidence] permits the accused in a homicide or criminal assault case to introduce evidence of the victim's violent character, after laying the foundation for a claim of self-defense, in order to prove that the victim was the aggressor. 5 Subsection (b) of § 4-4 provides that proof * of the victim's violent character may be made through reputation or opinion testimony or by evidence of the victim's conviction of a violent crime.”

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

2. “1. Did the Appellate Court properly conclude that the preclusion of the initial aggressor evidence was harmless error? "2. Did the Appellate Court properly conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the victim's subsequent domestic violence convictions as evidence that he was the initial aggressor during the defendant's barroom assault?”

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