People v. Weis

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that the defendant’s previous mistreatment of the victim “was relevant to show the principal fact in issue, whether the victim had consented, by evidence showing the extent to which the prior relationship of the parties had deteriorated”
• in trial for sexual assault of his former girlfriend, defendant’s prior assaultive behavior against girlfriend admitted to demonstrate the unlikelihood of consent in light of the evidence showing how their relationship had deteriorated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).