Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 7/8/1988

State v. Johnson

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130 N.H. 578
547 A.2d 213
1988 N.H. LEXIS 64

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holding that evidence of prior sexual acts between the defendant and the victim were admissible under Rule 404(b) to demonstrate his use of implied threats to coerce the victim to submit to the charged sexual assaults
affirming trial court finding that ‘“evidence of coercion under some circumstances is the result of a prolonged series of events between two individuals’”
allowing State to use evidence of prior acts to prove case in which one instance was at issue
rejecting plain error rule, court declines to rule on whether jury instruction improperly reduced State’s burden of proof in criminal trial absent proper objection by defendant at trial
evidence of prior bad acts with victim allowed to show mode of operation and on question of coercion to show system of the crime, activity, identity, motive, and context
in New Hampshire, unlike under the federal plain error rule, objections not raised at trial are waived

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Judges: Thayer

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