Pollard v. State
In the defendant's trial for retaliation by threat, the victim's
knowledge of the defendant's violent past was not relevant. The victim did not testify that his knowledge that the defendant had
actually killed a person contributed to his fear of the defendant or to his
recantation of his initial statement implicating the defendant in a sexual
assault. By itself, evidence that the defendant had killed a person did not make
any fact of consequence more or less probable in the prosecution of retaliation
by threat. Pollard v. State - PD-0363-08.
