show that appellant either fell asleep or was extremely inattentive at the wheel as to have not seen the victim’s car on the side of the road and not felt the impact of hitting a 250-pound man. The videotaped interview with Sergeant Prischmann did not contain any additional information except to show appellant’s confusion about what had happened. Because the videotaped interview did not significantly add to the testimony at trial, any error the district court made in admitting it was harmless. Appellant argues that the district court abused its discretion by allowing testimony from Ms. Thomson regarding Thomson and her inability to attend the entire trial because of the sequestration. Appellant argues the evidence was an improper appeal to the sympathy, passion, and prejudice of t ) (<HOLDING>). In comparing Ms. Thomson’s testimony to
holding that prosecutors attempt to present murder victim as a thoughtful friendly hardworking individual and the mother of a fouryearold child or showing victims picture before and after her death did not go beyond the pale of giving the victim a spark of life nor was its matteroffact nature likely to inflame the jurys passions holding that even though victims personal life was not strictly relevant to issue of who murdered him the prosecution had some leeway to show the victim was imbued with spark of life and to present the victim as a human being holding the harmed victim need not be the victim of the offense of conviction holding that evidence that the defendant had stalked threatened and assaulted the victim his exgirlfriend was evidence as to the nature of the defendants relationship with the victim and that it was relevant to establish motive holding that a defendant who alleges selfdefense can show through the testimony of another witness that the alleged victim had a propensity for violence thereby inferring that the alleged victim was the aggressor a defendants prior knowledge of the victims reputation for violence is irrelevant because the evidence is offered to show the conduct of the victim rather than the defendants state of mind