Casady v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “L.P. [the victim] returned to her apartment and telephoned her cousin and his wife who immediately came to aid her. They later took her to the hospital for a medical examination. The cousin and his wife were each allowed to answer questions at trial regarding L.P.’s physical and emotional condition on the morning after the attack. Appellant claims that their testimony was irrelevant and prejudicial and that the trial court erred in not granting his motion for mistrial. He claims that the only probative value of this evidence was that of L.P.’s injuries, and that this was outweighed by the prejudicial value of the evidence. [Citation of Oklahoma version of Mil.R.Evid. 403 omitted.] The statements complained of include such thing as the victim was scared, shaking, and cold; that she was very upset and crying; that L.P. and her cousin’s wife embraced. They each mentioned that her pastor and his wife were called. The cousin’s wife responded when asked her relationship to L.P. that, “Spiritually I’m a sister. Physically, I m a cousin by marriage.” From our review of the record, we find that many of the statements were relevant. Evidence is relevant when it has a tendency to make the existence of a significant fact more probable or less probable. [Citations omitted.] L.P.’s emotional state was probative of the issue of consent. Her distraught state indicates she had not consented to the sexual relations, and in fact that the acts described actually occurred. Her physical appearance”

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   e.g. United States v. Silvis