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EVIDENCE OF PRIOR SIMILAR CRIME SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ADMITTED, CONVICTION REVERSED.

The Third Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined evidence of a prior sexual assault, factually similar to the charged offenses, should not have been admitted in the People’s direct case. The victim of the prior assault testified in detail about it. The Third Department held that the prejudicial effect of the prior assault outweighed its probative value, irrespective of whether the evidence fit any Molineux exception to the rule excluding evidence of prior crimes:

… “[E]vidence of uncharged crimes or prior bad acts may be admitted where they fall within the recognized Molineux exceptions — motive, intent, absence of mistake, common plan or scheme and identity — or where such proof is inextricably interwoven with the charged crimes, provides necessary background or completes a witness’s narrative and, further, the trial court determines that the probative value of such evidence outweighs is prejudicial effect” … . Here, even assuming, without deciding, that the previous victim’s testimony at trial and the corresponding photographs fall within one or more of the aforementioned Molineux exceptions, we agree with defendant that the prejudicial effect of such evidence far outweighs its probative value and, therefore, the People should not have been permitted to introduce such evidence on their case-in-chief. People v Ward, 2016 NY Slip Op 05518, 3rd Dept 7-14-16

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