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· 3/21/2022

In the Interest of S. J. R. R., a Child (Mother)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “defendant has a constitutional right to present evidence that another may have committed the crime”
  • consciousness of guilt evidence \may be considered along with all other evidence\ to evaluate sufficiency
  • where murder may have been sexually motivated, error to exclude evidence of victim’s landlord’s history of prior sexual assaults where he had also been aware of undisclosed details of crime
  • interrogation not custodial where defendant allowed police into home to question him
  • refusal to submit to fingerprint test inadmissible

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