Supreme Court of Vermont· 4/24/1998

State v. Sanders

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716 A.2d 11
168 Vt. 60
1998 Vt. LEXIS 155

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holding that defendant’s prior abuse of victim admissible to show why victim was afraid and that defendant’s threat was credible
noting that “[vjictims of domestic abuse are likely to change their stories out of fear or retribution, or even out of misguided affection”
holding that evidence defendant abused victim on prior occasions was admissible as tending to prove “that defendant meant to threaten and intimidate . . . when he raised the knife and said ‘someone is going to die’ ”
explaining that if a defendant actually brings a motion in limine to exclude prior bad act evidence, he cannot claim insufficient notice because the purpose of Rule 26 is fulfilled
explaining that “[a]llegations of a single act of domestic violence, taken out of its situational context, are likely to seem ‘incongruous and incredible’ ”
domestic violence is controlling behavior aimed at gaining victim's compliance through repeated incidents of abuse

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Judges: Amestoy, C.J., and Dooley, Morse, Johnson and Skoglund

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