In re Appeal of Decision of the Disciplinary Board No. 07-PDB-066

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• evidence of defendant’s prior crimes admissible to prove knowledge, intent, motive or common design but not to prove bad character or propensity for criminality
• “[a] verdict of guilty of attempted murder requires a finding of the specific intent to cause death” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[i]t is a well established principle that arguments cannot be raised for the first time in a reply brief’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• prior misconduct that tends to show defen- dant harbored hostility toward victim of violent crime admissible to establish motive
• “[i]t is a well established principle that arguments cannot be raised for the first time in a reply brief’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[i]n reviewing a constitutional challenge to the trial court’s instruction, we must consider the jury charge as a whole to determine whether it is reasonably possible that the instruction misled the jury” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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