Dewitt v. Johnson

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• holding that defendant’s prior robbery was not admissible to show impecuniousness as motive for current robbery as State failed to show that defendant had a specific need for money at the time of the prior robbery
• holding that error in admitting evidence of prior attempted robbery, under Rule 404 (b), in defendant's trial for armed robbery was not harmless because other crime evidence was inherently prejudicial, and the evidence against defendant was not overwhelming
• evidence not overwhelming where identification of defendant was uncertain and physical evidence of the crime was not recovered from the defendant
• prior armed robbery of a woman alone at night after she parked her car not in the nature of a signature crime so as to be proof of the perpetrator’s identity

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