Reed v. Tay

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that evidence of other crimes may be admitted to show, among other things, motive, and intent to commit a charged offense
• holding that evidence of other acts of a defendant may be admissible to “explain a witness’s delay in reporting a matter”
• supporting admissibility to show motive or to present complete and coherent picture of events
• noting as a matter of due process that “[t]he State is required to prove the elements of the offense it charged, not the one it might have charged” (internal citations omitted)
• trial error “creates a rebuttable presumption of prejudice [and the] state may rebut this presumption by proving that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
• sexual intercourse “necessarily involve[s] ... ‘touching another person with [the defendant’s] genitals,’ ” and thus falls within the definition of “sexual contact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).