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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">From DOJ’s Appellate Update:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">EVIDENCE—P</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">RIOR
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In prosecution for domestic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">assault, defendant’s volunteered testimony that he is “a caring man” opened the<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">door to the victim testifying in rebuttal to other incidents in which he had<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold","serif";color:black">committed acts of violence against her.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,BoldItalic","serif";color:black">State v. Oliver,
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">275 Or App 552, __ P3d __ (2015) (Washington) (AAG Doug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">Petrina). During a domestic dispute, defendant knocked his girlfriend to the ground. He<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">was charged with fourth-degree assault. At trial, defendant testified that the victim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">attacked him and he was defending himself with the least amount of force when she fell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">to the ground. He volunteered, “I’m a caring man.” The court (Judge Andrew Erwin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">permitted the victim to testify in rebuttal about three previous incidents during which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">defendant had either used force or put his hands on her. The jury found defendant guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Italic","serif";color:black">Held</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">: Affirmed (Lagesen, J.).
The trial court correctly admitted the prior-acts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">evidence to impeach defendant. “[T]he evidence of defendant’s previous acts of violence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">toward the victim was, at a minimum, relevant to the jury’s assessment of defendant’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">credibility. Defendant’s own testimony made it so. Once defendant testified that he was a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">‘caring man’ who would not use force to harm another person, the evidence of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">defendant’s prior acts—which tended to refute defendant’s characterization of himself—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:black">became probative to impeach that testimony.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A157480.pdf">http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A157480.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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