Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1/2/2007

State v. Lopez

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911 A.2d 1099
289 Conn. 779

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concluding that trial court properly admitted prior misconduct evidence for purpose of establishing motive in murder case where defendant had threatened two victims with gun two to three weeks before shooting them
evidence of defendant’s prior crimes admissible to prove knowledge, intent, motive or common design but not to prove bad character or propensity for criminality
“[a] verdict of guilty of attempted murder requires a finding of the specific intent to cause death” [internal quotation marks omitted]
prior misconduct that tends to show defen- dant harbored hostility toward victim of violent crime admissible to establish motive
“[i]t is a well established principle that arguments cannot be raised for the first time in a reply brief’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
“[i]n reviewing a constitutional challenge to the trial court’s instruction, we must consider the jury charge as a whole to determine whether it is reasonably possible that the instruction misled the jury” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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Judges: Borden

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