State v. Valentine

OPINION

MINGE, Judge.

Appellant challenges his conviction of two counts of domestic assault against victim J.K., his girlfriend, arguing that (1) the district court erred in allowing (a) the introduction of evidence of appellant’s pri- or domestic assaults against appellant’s other girlfriend, B.S., as relationship evi dence under Minn.Stat. § 634.20 (2008), (b) evidence of appellant’s prior assaults on B.S. as Spreigl evidence under Minn. R. Evid. 404(b), (c) a police officer’s testimony as an expert on battered-woman syndrome, and (d) voicemail recordings of messages to B.S.; (2) the…