Baret v. Newyork

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that evidence of the defendant’s prior course of conduct was “necessary to explain to the jury defendant’s motive for the murder” by placing “an otherwise random and bizzare act” in context
• defendant’s acts that occurred hours before shooting provide context in which shooting took place
• evidence of defendant’s escalating course of violent behavior is probative of context of crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).