JOHNSON, Justice.
We decide today that, in a prosecution for sexual assault, evidence of a defendant's prior consensual sexual relations may be admitted, under V.R.E. 404(b), to show identity.
Defendant was tried by a jury for sexual assault, pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 3252(a)(1)(C), and for burglary, pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 1201. The evidence established that on April 21, 1987, at approximately 1:00 a.m., defendant forcibly entered the victim's apartment...
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