Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/20/2005

Commonwealth v. Butler

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445 Mass. 568
839 N.E.2d 307
2005 Mass. LEXIS 725

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holding that the jury is “entitled to consider evidence that depicted the hostile relationship between [the victim] and the defendant [in order to help] explain her recantation, so that they could adequately assess her credibility”
evidence of prior bad act admissible as “probative to demonstrate the hostile nature of the relationship between the defendant and [the victim]”
fact finder entitled to consider evidence of hostile relationship between defendant and victim to adequately assess victim's credibility
prior bad act evidence admissible to show \continuing animosity on the defendant's part toward [the victim]\
\To be sufficiently probative the evidence must be connected with the facts of the case [and] not be too remote in time\
\To be sufficiently probative the evidence must be connected with the facts of the case [and] not be too remote in time\

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Judges: Greaney

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