Opinion

Brown v. State

  • 736 P.2d 1110
  • 1987 Wyo. LEXIS 447
Court
Wyoming Supreme Court
Filed
May 15, 1987
Status
Published
Author
MacY
On the bench
Brown, Thomas, Cardine, Urbigkit, MacY
Cited by
52 cases

superseded by statute on other grounds, 1987 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 157, § 3, as recognized in Jones v. State, 771 P.2d 368 , 370 (Wyo. 1989)

How later courts described this case

  • superseded by statute on other grounds, 1987 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 157, § 3, as recognized in Jones v. State, 771 P.2d 368 , 370 (Wyo. 1989)
  • in prosecution for incest, testimony by victim and her half-sister impli- eating defendant in prior sexual abuse admissible because aberrant sexual behavior is probative of motive
  • in prosecution for incest, testimony by victim and her half-sister implicating defendant in prior sexual abuse admissible because aberrant sexual behavior is probative of motive
  • familial relationship existed between female victim of uncharged sexual misconduct and female victim of charged sexual misconduct

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

MACY, Justice,

dissenting.

I dissent. This case has just struck the final death blow to Rule 404, W.R.E., and all that remains is the spirit of the rule.

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