Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1/2/2007

State v. Lopez

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280 Conn. 779
911 A.2d 1099
2007 Conn. LEXIS 1

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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]
“[i]t is a well established principle that arguments cannot be raised for the first time in a reply brief’ [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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