Bryan Craig Fox v. State of Alabama

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that doctrine of chances is premised on “the objective improbability of the recurrence of similar, uncommon events”
• explaining that propensity evidence carries the risk that the verdict will be based on unfair prejudice and that the jury will overestimate the probative value of the evidence
• explaining that OEC 404(3) prohibits the admission of propensity evidence “even if the proponent asserts that it is being offered to prove, for example, ‘intent’ or ‘absence of mistake or accident’
• explaining that OEC 404(3) prohibits the admission of propensity evidence “even if the proponent asserts that it is being offered to prove, for example, ‘intent’ or ‘absence of mistake or accident’ ”
• noting that prior bad acts evidence cannot “be admitted under the doctrine of chances for the purpose of arguing that, because the defendant engaged in delib- erate conduct before, it is likely that he engaged in it again during the charged incident”
• noting that prior bad acts evidence cannot “be admitted under the doctrine of chances for the purpose of arguing that, because the defendant engaged in delib- erate conduct before, it is likely that he engaged in it again during the charged incident”

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