Indiana Supreme Court· 6/6/1997

Williams v. State

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681 N.E.2d 195
1997 Ind. LEXIS 71
1997 WL 302398

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affirming exclusion of evidence of victim’s cocaine addiction to prove a character trait of victim under Indiana Rule of Evidence 404(a)(2)
affirming exclusion of evidence that would have shifted jury’s attention away from the defendant’s actions to those of the victim
finding no error in excluding evidence that would shift the jury’s attention away from the defendant’s actions to the past acts of the victim
trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to admit testimony about witness’s prior drug use when there was no evidence of drug use at trial or at the time of the events related

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Judges: Boehm, Shepard, Dickson, Sullivan, Selby

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