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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">EVIDENCE—P</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">RIOR
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In case of murder-by-stabbing, trial court correctly<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">admitted evidence that defendant was convicted of assault for stabbing the victim nine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">months earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">State v. Olson</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">, 263 Or App
__, __ P3d __ (May 29, 2014) (Marion) (AAIC Jamie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Contreras/former AAG Jeremy Rice).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">FACTS:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Defendant stabbed
her husband to death, and was charged with murder. At trial, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">the state filed a motion asking to introduce evidence that, nine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">months earlier, defendant had pleaded guilty to assault for stabbing the victim; the state argued<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">that evidence was relevant to her intent to murder the victim. Defendant argued that the prior-act<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">evidence was inadmissible because the two events were insufficiently similar. The trial court<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">(Judge Claudia Burton) allowed the state to introduce the prior-acts evidence under OEC 404(3),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">and instructed the jury that it could consider that evidence “only for the purpose of deciding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">whether the defendant acted with the mental state, intentionally, that is alleged in the murder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">charge in this case.” The jury found defendant guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">HELD:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Affirmed (Sercombe,
J.). The trial court correctly admitted the prior-acts evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">[1] The two incidents were “extremely similar” and therefore were relevant under
<i>State v. Johns</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">301 Or 535 (1986). [2] Admission of the prior-acts evidence did not violate due process,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">because it was relevant to proof of defendant’s intent, an element of the crime charged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A150290.pdf">http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A150290.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Note:
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The heightened relevancy showing required under
<i>Johns </i>might not apply to prior acts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">of the defendant, which arguably need only be relevant under OEC 401 to be admissible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">under OEC 404(4). Sr. AAG Dave Thompson is available at (503) 378-4402 to discuss pending<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">cases that address that issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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