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Collins v. State

Citations

  • 966 N.E.2d 96
  • 2012 WL 987566

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that the defendant’s battery of a co-worker almost 30 years earlier was not relevant or probative to the charged crime of domestic violence
  • “Where a defendant claims self- defense, the State may use evidence of the defendant’s prior misconduct to disprove that argument that the victim was the initial aggressor.”
  • “Where a defendant claims self- defense, the State may use evidence of the defendant’s prior misconduct to disprove that argument that the victim was the initial aggressor.”

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Judges: Kirsch, Barnes, Bradford

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