Rink v. United States

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• holding that motive evidence is admissible to address “whether appellant reasonably apprehended a danger of imminent, serious bodily harm from the deceased”
• holding that motive evidence is admissible to address “whether appellant reasonably apprehended a danger of imminent, serious bodily harm from the deceased”
• admission of prior consistent statement to show state of mind; denial of mistrial following prosecutor’s improper question
• defendant’s statement that deceased had beaten her is admissible under “state of mind exception” to hearsay rule
• defendant's statement that deceased had beaten her is admissible under \state of mind exception\ to hearsay rule
• declarant's threats towards the victim are admissible to establish declarant's malice aforethought in a second-degree murder trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).