People v. Kimbrough

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• otherwise admissible testimony will not be excluded merely because it shows that the defendant committed another crime or because it enhances or bolsters the testimony of a State’s witness
• “[e]vidence of other crimes may be relevant *** to the issue of who committed a crime [and] to the issue of whether a crime was committed at all”
• evidence of modus operandi was admissible where the defendant claimed that the encounter was consensual
• evidence of modus operandi was admissible where the defendant claimed that the encounter was consensual
• \[e]vidence of other crimes may be relevant *** to the issue of who committed a crime [and] to the issue of whether a crime was committed at all\
• evidence of other crimes or unlawful conduct is admissible if relevant to prove, e.g., defendant’s state of mind, absence of an innocent frame of mind, identification of weapon used in crime, and opportunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).