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· 6/8/1990

State v. Lavalette

Citations

  • 578 A.2d 108
  • 154 Vt. 426
  • 1990 Vt. LEXIS 108

How courts have described this case

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

  • upholding trial court’s exclusion under rape shield law of evidence of past sexual conduct between complaining witness and defendant because proffered evidence had little probative value where “sexual conduct ceased some eighteen months earlier”
  • trial court has discretion under 13 V.S.A. § 3255 to exclude evidence of prior sexual conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Allen, Peck, Gibson, Dooley, Morse

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