State v. Costello
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
1Opinion of the Court
*116DUGGAN, J.
Following a jury trial in Superior Court {Lewis, J.), the defendant, Kurt Costello, was convicted of burglary. See RSA 635:1 (2007). He appeals, arguing that the trial court erred by admitting evidence that he was addicted to heroin. We affirm.
The jury could have found the following facts. Around noon on July 5, 2006, fourteen-year-old David Smith was home alone sleeping when he heard a knock on the slider door. He woke up, opened the slider, and saw his neighbor, Stuart Markham, the defendant’s stepson, walking away. Thinking Markham merely wanted to play catch, Smith went back to…
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