State v. Van Adams

How courts have described this case

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• holding 9 STATE v. WALSH Decision of the Court not too remote in time under 404(b)
• noting “[i]njuries to [a strangulation victim’s] hands and wrists signify that she struggled and attempted to defend herself’
• upholding death sentence of defendant who waived mitigation, instructed his counsel not to present mitigating evidence, and instructed his family not to cooperate with his counsel's efforts to investigate his background for purposes of presenting mitigation
• upholding the admission of other-act evidence under Rule 404(b) based in part on the “[n]umerous similarities” between the other acts alleged and the incident giving rise to the charged offense
• DNA comparison analysis using RFLP and PCR methods is admissible without being the subject of a pretrial Daubert hearing
• court approved finding of prior conviction when “state introduced a certified copy of California’s Disposition of Arrest and Court Action” because “[t]he state can make that showing through the use of extrinsic evidence, including ‘a certified copy of a judgment of conviction.’ ”

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