# State v. Crims

> Court of Appeals of Minnesota · November 28, 1995 · 540 N.W.2d 860

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9694766

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Raymond Timothy CRIMS, Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Minnesota
- **Decided:** November 28, 1995
- **Citations:** 540 N.W.2d 860; 1995 Minn. App. LEXIS 1441; 1995 WL 697512
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Klaphake
- **Judges:** Short, Parker, Klaphake
- **Cited by:** 39 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that, “[u]nless and until a defendant shows the victim’s sexual history to be relevant to the facts at bar, this particular form of 7 character evidence simply is not admissible under the normal rules of evidence”
- concluding that no plain error existed when referring the jury to the instructions and 8 stating that “[n]othing . . . indicates the jury was incapable of resolving its confusion by reference to the written instructions it already possessed”
- reasoning that, absent exceptional circumstances, the prejudicial impact of evidence of sexual activity with third persons outweighs its probative value under Minn. R. Evid. 403
- concluding that rape does not become a legal impossibility if the victim initially consents to penetration
- holding trial court’s exclusion of evidence of complainant’s prior acts of prostitution proper where the relevance of such evidence was not shown

## Opinion text

KLAPHAKE, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the result.

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