Miss Lee X

With deep sadness, we announce the sudden passing of our dear colleague Visha Dinesh, MD. She was an exceptional physician, beloved by her patients and staff. She will be forever missed.

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Letters from the Burkes to Mary Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, were published in the 1859 edition of The African Repository with Mrs. Lee's permission. This letter from Mrs. Burke to Mrs. Lee demonstrates personal warmth between the two women. Mrs. Burke shows concern for Mrs. Lee's health, tells Mrs. Lee about her children, and asks about the Lee children. The "little Martha" referred to was Martha Custis Lee Burke, born in Liberia and named for one of the Lee family. Repeating her husband's enthusiasm for their new life, Rosabella Burke says, "I love Africa and would not exhange it for America."

The Booker T. Washington Institute at Kakata, Liberia, was founded in 1929 by a group of American missionary and philanthropic organizations, including the American Colonization Society. Like Tuskegee Institute, the school emphasized vocational training and prepared many young Liberians for jobs in agriculture, auto mechanics, carpentry, masonry, and other trades. The campus of the institute was built on a 1,000-acre tract of land granted by the Liberian government. As the accompanying letter shows, the ACS provided funding for the institution.

Secondly, the prosecutor's question implies that the defendant killed other persons on other occasions. "The general rule is, that evidence is not admissible which shows, or tends to show, that the accused has committed a crime wholly independent of the offense for which he is on trial. The reason for the rule is, that no person shall be convicted of an offense by proving that he is guilty of another. Evidence of such character creates a prejudice against the accused, and the rule should, therefore, be strictly enforced in all cases where applicable." Warford v. People, 43 Colo. 107, 96 P. 556 (1908). (emphasis added)

Relying on Archina v. People, 135 Colo. 8, 307 P.2d 1083 (1957), the defendant asserts that three photographs of the decedent should not have been admitted because their inflammatory nature outweighed any probative value. In Archina, the objectionable pictures showed the decedent nude, on a marble slab at the morgue after an autopsy had been performed, almost three weeks after the crime had been committed. The court held those pictures inadmissible stating that they had no probative value and they served only to incite the jurors' passions.

In the instant case, the photos show the victim and the room as found, thus rendering them relevant and admissible. Further, the photos are illustrative of testimony given at trial, see Hampton v. People, 171 Colo. 153, 465 P.2d 394 (1970). Accordingly, they were properly admitted in evidence.

The defendant next asserts that the exhibition to the jury of numerous knives, which were not received in evidence, was error. The trial court, on defendant's motion, refused admission of the knives in evidence. At that time the knives should have been removed from the view of the jury. However, the jury was instructed that, "[e]vidence offered at the trial and rejected by the court, and evidence stricken from the record by order of the court, should not be considered by you." We therefore must presume that the jury adhered to this instruction and did not consider the knives as evidence. People v. Knapp, 180 Colo. 280, 505 P.2d 7 (1973). 041b061a72