Indiana Court of Appeals· 10/15/2008

Roberts v. State

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894 N.E.2d 1018
2008 Ind. App. LEXIS 2229
2008 WL 4571811

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concluding that defendant had not established alleged misconduct when juror’s affidavit directly conflicted with testimony of defendant and his father indicating a close relationship between juror and defendant’s mother
explaining the forfeiture by wrongdoing doctrine, noting that an exception to the constitutional right to confront witnesses occurs when the defendant procured the witness’s unavailability by conduct designed to prevent the witnesses by testifying
affirming the trial court’s admission of a prior statement under the “forfeiture by wrongdoing” hearsay exception where the defendant murdered his girlfriend after she told her friends that the defendant threatened to kill her
“[W]e accept the Supreme Court’s invitation to take a slightly broader view of the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing as advocated by Justice Breyer in his dissent in Giles as it applies to non-testimonial statements under Indiana law.”
defendant accused of choking victim opened the door to evidence that he had previously choked several other women because he testified that he had only performed chokeholds on men during martial arts training

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