Government of the Virgin Islands v. Raphello Harris, Sr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of other bad acts (attempted stabbing and strangling) by a defendant were highly probative because they demonstrated absence of accident and that the probative value was not outweighed by the risk of unfair prejudice
• noting that “[u]nder the ‘trustworthiness’ doctrine, direct proof of the corpus delicti is not required; the evidence may even be collateral to the crime itself’
• noting that a “history of an unstable, stormy, or violent relationship between defendant and victim- wife” and a “defendant’s statements concerning victim-wife’s alleged infidelity” are significant factors in “prior ‘no-body-required’ case law”
• defining “confession” as “a statement admitting or acknowledging all facts necessary for conviction of the crime”
• upholding murder conviction in no-body case and highlighting defendant’s history of verbal threats and violence against his wife
• defining “confession” as “a statement admitting or acknowledging all facts necessary for conviction of the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).