Merzbacher v. State

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the admissibility of evidence is within the “considerable and sound discretion of the trial court”
• stating that the admissibility of evidence is within the \considerable and sound discretion of the trial court\
• noting that the common law rule of \other crimes evidence\ is embodied in Rule 5-404(b)
• noting that the common law rule of “other crimes evidence” is embodied in Rule 5 — 404(b)
• stating that the rationale underlying Rule 5-404 is “to prevent a jury from punishing a defendant for having a ‘criminal propensity’ ”
• reiterating that the rationale for the rule is “to prevent a jury from punishing a defendant for having a ‘criminal propensity’ ” (citation omitted)

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