State v. Aguayo

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the “siren song” of relaxing Rule 11 — 404(B) because of difficulty in proving child abuse cases
• rejecting the argument that because of the difficulty in proving a crime against a child, the rules of evidence should be interpreted more loosely in child abuse cases
• “State offered the trial court no rationale for the admission of Defendant’s prior ‘bad acts’ ”
• “Admission of character traits to prove that the defendant acted in accordance with those traits is, of course, exactly what Rule 11 — 404(B) is designed to prohibit.”
• “Admission of evidence is within the sound discretion of the trial court and the trial court’s determination will not be disturbed in the absence of an abuse of that discretion.”
• “Evidence admissible under ‘battered child syndrome’ negates accidental injury and is probative of physical abuse by a person of mature strength, but the jury must still decide whether the particular injury in question was caused by the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).