State v. Burkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in first degree murder trial, it was not error to admit evidence of defendant's sexual demands upon another woman under circumstances similar to those leading up to the murder to show that defendant's motive was the victim's refusal to consent to his sexual demands
• holding that in first degree murder trial, it was not error to admit evidence of defendant’s sexual demands upon another woman under circumstances similar to those leading up to the murder to show that defendant’s motive was the victim’s refusal to consent to his sexual demands
• reviewing court may affirm a trial court’s ER 404(b) ruling on any correct ground
• “The party seeking review has the burden of perfecting the record so that this court has before it all relevant evidence.”
• vulnerable victim finding not supported where record showed only that victim used drugs but did not show victim was impaired by them
• “Deception alone does not make a statement inadmissible as a matter of law; rather, the inquiry is whether the deception made the waiver of constitutional rights involuntary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).