In re the Rehabilitation of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance

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• noting that “other acts evidence admitted for the purpose of proving the general intent of an assault may have low probative value”
• holding that evidence of the appellant’s gang affiliation was admissible as evidence intrinsic to the charged offenses of murder and other crimes because it completed the story of the crimes and enabled the State to explain his association with the shooters and his role in the crimes
• explaining that “[e]ven if we were to assume that the trial court erred in not rebuking the prosecutor under OCGA § 17-8-75, any such error was harmless” because of the “substantial evidence” request a specific remedy.”
• explaining that “[e]ven if we were to assume that the trial court erred in not rebuking the prosecutor under OCGA § 17-8-75, any such error was harmless” in light of the substantial evidence against the defendant
• “Simply put, the evidence must be for a purpose other than to show a defendant’s general propensity toward violence.”
• “the trial court did not deprive [defendant] of a fair trial by not declaring a mistrial sua sponte”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).