Legal Opinion
State v. Washington
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided March 17, 2005No. A03-980PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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SYLLABUS
1. The admission of Spreigl evidence of incidents that occurred 16 years prior to the charged offense was not an abuse of discretion in a criminal sexual conduct case where the defendant was incarcerated during more than half of the intervening time, there was significant similarity between the prior and charged acts and the defendant claimed that the victim was fabricating her complaints.
2. Once having determined that some testimony about prior bad acts…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Blakely v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- State v. SpreiglSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1965
- State v. BillstromSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1967
- State v. BolteSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
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3Cited by29 opinions
- State v. NessSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
- State v. OldsonNebraska Supreme Court · 2016
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2008
- State v. BoboSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2009
- State v. GoodloeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
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