Government of the Virgin Islands v. Luis Carino

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court properly excluded evidence of a victim's prior conviction of manslaughter to demonstrate that the victim was likely the aggressor in a physical altercation with the defendant
• admitting knowledge of victim’s prior conviction as to state of mind under Rule 404(b)
• “If it can be established that the accused knew at the time of the alleged crime of prior violent acts by the victim, such evidence is relevant as tending to show a reasonable apprehension on the part of the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).