State ex rel. Hodge v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• decision to grant evidentiary hearing in order to determine defendant's competence requires \exercise of sound judicial discretion\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• decision to grant evidentiary hearing in order to determine defendant’s competence requires “exercise of sound judicial discretion” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that probative value of uncharged sexual misconduct evidence outweighed its prejudicial effect, even though charged conduct involved greater degree of force
• “such evidence [cannot] be used to suggest that the defendant has a bad character or a propensity for criminal behavior”
• “[pjersons are presumed to be aware of the law and cannot plead ignorance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).