RENEL LOUIS v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA

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• explaining that prior bad act evidence of defendant’s choking wife admissible to show defendant’s motive and intent
• testimony regarding defendant’s earlier attempt to choke and suffocate spouse admissible where defendant accused of asphyxiating spouse by smothering
• victim’s statements to neighbor after defendant had tried to kill her by choking and smothering her admissible as spontaneous utterance
• warrantless entry of home justified where police had reasonable grounds to believe that victim of domestic violence might be injured or dead inside
• victim’s statements to neighbor immediately after defendant tried to kill her admissible as excited utterance
• victim told neighbor that defendant had tried to smother her eighteen months before death by asphyxia due to smothering

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).