People v. Gladney

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• noting that it is the “better practice” to provide a limiting instruction alongside res gestae evidence
• observing that defense counsel often chooses not to request a limiting instruction for strategic or tactical reasons, and therefore holding that a trial court’s failure to give such an instruction on its own motion is not reversible error
• concluding that the trial court had properly prevented questioning the witness because “[t]he defendant ma de no offer of proof to demonstrate that the [psychiatric] hospitalization was in any way relevant to the d efendant’s credibility three y ears later at the time of trial ”
• observing that defense counsel often chooses not to request a limiting instruction for strategic or tactical reasons, and therefore holding that a trial court's failure to give such an instruction on its own motion is not reversible error
• for strategic or tactical reasons, defense counsel may consider a limiting instruction more harmful than beneficial
• for strategic or tactical reasons, defense counsel may consider a limiting instruction more harmful than beneficial

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