State v. Ryan

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• directing trial court to rule on motion at inception of trial if ruling will affect defense strategy
• directing trial court to rule on motion at inception of trial if ruling will affect defense strategy
• defendant was guilty of counselling or otherwise procuring murder when he told co-defendant that she “had to MU” victim to prove her love
• “Where there is doubt about the probative value of the prior crime evidence, that doubt should be resolved in favor of the defendant and the evidence ruled inadmissible.”
• evidence of other crimes inadmissible where there is no “connection between the two crimes other than that connection which depends on the naturally drawn but legally insufficient assumption that ‘If he did it once, he probably did it again.’ ”
• court must take into account defendant’s strategy to “soften the impact” of incriminating evidence in deciding to postpone resolution of pretrial motion until time of trial; once decision is made, defendant is “entitled to rely on that ruling”

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-02-02· cited 40×
• State v. Durenleau
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1994-09-30· cited 37×
• Edward F. Flanagan v. Nancy duMont (Flanagan)
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-11-04· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-24· cited 20×
• State v. Goodrich
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-04-14· cited 19×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-08-19· cited 14×
• State v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-01-27· cited 13×
• State v. Maduro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-10-25· cited 1×
• State v. Bedell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-01-13
• State v. Allocco
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1994-05-20