Forrester v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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• affirming decision to admit evidence of coercive behavior occurring years before charged crime of aggravated felonious sexual assault because earlier incidents “constituted evidence of the very threat which coerced the victim during the assaults in question”
• where State sought to prove coercion by threatening, coercion may be shown where threat is “implicit, arising from earlier incidents”
• sexual intercourse held to have been performed by use of present threats even though threats complained of had occurred several years earlier, defendant having created environment of fear and control over stepdaughter
• “explicit prior incidents [of assault by the defendant on the victim] gave rise to the threat, an element of the charged offense, at the time of the assaults”
• evidence of threats or coercive behavior not evidence of “other crimes, wrongs, or acts” but “evidence of the very threat which coerced the victim during the assaults in question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).