Supreme Court of Connecticut· 7/1/1980
State v. Tucker
Citations
- 181 Conn. 406
- 435 A.2d 986
- 1980 Conn. LEXIS 902
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- concluding that trial court properly admitted evidence of defendant’s prior acts of child abuse against murder victim to establish specific intent to murder
- when balancing, court required to consider whether equally probative, less prejudicial evidence available to state
- evidence of prior acts of child abuse against same victim was inadmissible to prove act of murder but admissible to prove specific intent to murder and lack of accident
- evidence of uncharged misconduct may be used to establish \a pattern of behavior and an attitude ... that is indicative of the defendant's state of mind\
- testimony that defendant engaged in acts that hurt child prior to incident resulting in child's death was admissible because relevant to show death resulted from intentional rather than accidental act
- evidence of prior child abuse probative on issue of intent in child homicide
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Judges: Cotter, Bogdanski, Peters, Healey, Parskey
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70 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'nSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-09-06· cited 171×
- State v. MooneySupreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-03-19· cited 145×
- State v. GaynorSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-12-16· cited 123×
- State v. NardiniSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-07-13· cited 114×
- State v. FigueroaSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-15· cited 114×
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-02-24· cited 112×
- State v. PollittSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-08-25· cited 108×
- State v. WeinbergSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-06-05· cited 108×
- State v. BramanSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-12-27· cited 106×
- State v. CooperSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-24· cited 104×
- State v. BaldwinSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-01-12· cited 101×
- State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-04-22· cited 99×
- State v. SawyerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-08-08· cited 94×
- State v. CarpenterSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-02-27· cited 92×
- State v. AvcollieSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-12-14· cited 84×
- State v. LittleSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-12-18· cited 83×
- State v. PareSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-07-11· cited 71×
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-12-29· cited 70×
- State v. BemberSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-04-07· cited 69×
- State v. SalzSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-06-22· cited 69×
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