Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 8/7/1986

State v. Allen

Citations

128 N.H. 390
514 A.2d 1263
1986 N.H. LEXIS 309

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concluding that threat made three years before charged event was sufficiently proximate for threat to be relevant
holding risk of prejudice resulting from admission of evidence “minimized” by remaining evidence
finding that the weight of a prior bad act that occurred more than three years prior to the charged conduct may have been reduced “to some degree” but “its force had certainly not diminished entirely”
finding a sufficient temporal connection between a prior bad act that occurred three and a half years prior to the charged conduct
“Remoteness is one element to be considered in balancing probative value against the prejudicial effect of proffered evidence.”
threat made in 1980 before the charged event in 1984 was not too remote to be admissible

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Judges: Souter

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