People v. Kyle

How courts have described this case

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• on the basis of independent in camera review, appellate court concludes that trial court's failure to conduct review was harmless
• marginal relevance of prior assault was outweighed by humiliation and psychological abuse the victim would suffer if it were admitted
• habitual sex offender act mandating trial to the court to determine prior sex offense convictions is not unconstitutional under the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
• “Evidence of a defendant’s behavior . . . may be admissible to show that the defendant was conscious of guilt and, by further inference, committed the crime charged.”
• Evidence of the defendant’s “threats against witnesses . . . may be admissible to show that the defendant was conscious of guilt and, by further inference, committed the crime charged.”
• “[M]ere similarity between two series of sexual assaults is insufficient to demonstrate the relevance of the facts of the first series to the facts at issue in the second series.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).