Robert DeSpain v. Laura Ann DeSpain

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• holding that the jury is “entitled to consider evidence that depicted the hostile relationship between [the victim] and the defendant [in order to help] explain her recantation, so that they could adequately assess her credibility”
• evidence of prior bad act admissible as “probative to demonstrate the hostile nature of the relationship between the defendant and [the victim]”
• fact finder entitled to consider evidence of hostile relationship between defendant and victim to adequately assess victim's credibility
• prior bad act evidence admissible to show \continuing animosity on the defendant's part toward [the victim]\
• \To be sufficiently probative the evidence must be connected with the facts of the case [and] not be too remote in time\
• \To be sufficiently probative the evidence must be connected with the facts of the case [and] not be too remote in time\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).