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Keeping The Door Closed On Bad Acts Character Evidence
Character Evidence Generally NRS 48.045(1) governs the admissibility of character evidence in a criminal trial: 1. Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: (a) Evidence of his character or a trait of [...]
Sealed Records Do Not Seal An Accuser’s Recollection
Posted by on Nov 11, 2009 in Character evidence, Sealed records
In Zana v. State, prior bad acts of the defendant were admitted through the testimony of witnesses having first hand knowledge of the defendant’s acts. The court explained, When a court orders a record sealed, “[a]ll proceedings recounted in the record are deemed never to have occurred.” NRS 179.285. This fiction permits the subject of [...]
