State v. Beltran

The defendant, Christopher Beltran, appeals his conviction of two counts of second-degree murder, see RSA 630:l-b (1996), following a jury trial in Superior Court {Barry, J.). He argues that the trial court erred: (1) in admitting detailed evidence that he physically abused his former girlfriend, Arica Siegel; (2) by refusing to allow him to introduce a police report as extrinsic evidence to impeach Siegel; and (3) by allowing the State to impeach its own witness with a prior inconsistent statement. We affirm.

The jury could have found the following relevant facts. On April 17, 2003,…