Defendant Jason Kimball is on trial for the murder of his neighbor, Amanda Goodwin. Early in the trial, certain facts were demonstrated by evidence offered without objection: Amanda Goodwin was found dead by her husband, Ricky Goodwin, when he got home from work at approximately 6pm on August 5^th. Medical evidence showed she had been killed with a blow to her head with a blunt object.

The prosecution proposes to call as a witness defendant's wife Norma. She would testify that one night, approximately 2 weeks before Amanda was killed, Jason had said to her "Norma, if I do anything terrible, I hope you can forgive me." In addition, Norma wants to testify that on August 5^th, Ricky came home from work agitated and "freaked out" and refused to talk to her.

Rough draft admissibility of diary statements

On cross examination Of Goodwin, defense counsel asks him "Isn't it true that you found out that defendant and your wife were in love and planning to run off together?" Goodwin answers, "No, my wife wouldn't do that."

Later, the defense would like to call Alex Arvin, Ricky Goodwin's close friend, to testify that Ricky told Alex that Ricky had found out that defendant and Amanda were having an affair.

Rough draft the admissibility of the Alex's testimony.

Defendant takes the stand and testifies that he had been having an affair for over a year with Amanda before she was killed. He further testified that he and Amanda were going to leave their spouses and get married. Finally, he testifies that on the day of her death, he talked to Amanda at 1:30pm and she said "Ricky knows about us. I am afraid he is going to kill me."

On cross=examination, the prosecution seeks to ask the following questions:

(1) 21 year old accusation (2) Defendant hot temper incident 2 years ago

Rough draft the admissibility of the cross-examination question.