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Tennessee Supreme Court· 4/11/1994

State v. Rickman

Citations

  • 876 S.W.2d 824
  • 1994 Tenn. LEXIS 109

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the “general rule, which excludes evidence of other crimes or bad acts as irrelevant and prejudicial when the defendant is on trial for a crime or act of the same character remains sound”
  • recognizing that proof of similar crimes “easily results in a jury improperly convicting a defendant for his or her bad character or apparent propensity or disposition to commit a crime regardless of the strength of the evidence concerning the offense on trial”
  • holding evidence of other sex crimes relevant and admissible which allegedly occurred during the time as those sexual offenses charged in the indictment
  • approving the use of “evidence of other sex crimes [between the defendant and the victim] when an indictment is not time specific and when the evidence relates to sex crimes that allegedly occurred during the time charged in the indictment”
  • testimony of unindicted sexual offenses against a minor were not admissible as corroboration of the minor’s testimony
  • “evidence that the defendant had committed some other crime wholly independent of that for which he is charged, even though it is a crime of the same character, is usually not admissible because it is irrelevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Anderson, Reid, Drowota, O'Brien, Birch

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