People v. Piper’s Empirical Analysis

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21 state decisions

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1. “[T]he identification of [those felonies] . . . created a substantial danger that the jury would view it as proof of a propensity to commit the violent crime with which [appellant] was charged. The probative value of identifying the prior [felonies] was substantially outweighed by the danger that its admission would create prejudice. . . . [T]he court erred when it denied [appellant’s] motion that the jury not be told what the specific prior [felonies were]. Given [appellant’s] proposed stipulation, the trial court could have avoided both jury confusion and undue prejudice ... by informing the jury that he had by stipulation admitted that he was a previously convicted felon. Proof of the specific [felonies] could then have been excluded on grounds of undue prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanders v. State