State v. Cassavaugh

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• concluding that admission of evidence of defendant’s prior threat to kill victim in first-degree murder case was not so inflammatory as to substantially outweigh its probative value where defendant’s intent was contested
• holding that a “threat . . . made during the course of a heated argument between [the victim] and the defendant” was admissible because it “went directly to whether the defendant intended to kill [the victim] when he shot her”
• finding police interview highly probative where “defendant’s demeanor visibly changed when the conversation turned to the murders” and defendant made a possibly false exculpatory statement
• trial court committed plain error when it admitted portion of transcript and videotaped recording of defendant’s invocation of his right to silence
• threat delivered two months before victim's murder was not so remote in time as to eliminate the requisite nexus between it and the charged event

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).