Matter of Rodcliffe M., Jr. (Rodcliffe M., Sr.)

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• recognizing that establishing motive is helpful to establishing identity
• holding past acts that reveal the emotional relationship between the defendant and victim are “highly probative of the defendant’s probable motivation 7 and intent in subsequent situations” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing a person’s motive to commit an offense is probative to identity
• recognizing a person’s motive to commit an offense is probative to identity
• concluding evidence about the defendant pushing and shoving the victim and putting a cane to her neck was “relevant to show [the defendant] had been angry enough at [the victim] in the recent past to commit acts of violence against her”
• confirming defendant’s denials “he was the perpetrator put at issue all the elements of the offense”

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