Commissioner of Social Services ex rel. Deborah W. v. Vito G.

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• holding that establishing means for committing crime is appropriate alternative purpose for which prior mis- conduct evidence may be admissible
• reviewing court must determine whether trial court's denial of continuance request was arbitrary or unreasonable
• shooting at home where defen- dant believed victim to be staying less vicious than shooting three victims in head at close range
• declining to consider whether to adopt the “cumulative error” doctrine because, as in Hinds, the errors claimed would not satisfy that doctrine
• dismissing penalty phase challenge in death penalty appeal as rendered moot by abolition of death penalty and unripe by virtue of fact that defendant had not yet been resentenced
• ‘‘prejudicial impact of uncharged misconduct evidence is assessed in light of its relative ‘viciousness’ in comparison with the charged conduct’’

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