Southward v. State

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• observing that the use of evidence prohibited under Rule 404(b) carries with it the risk of the “forbidden inference” that a person’s bad act on a prior occasion shows that the act now at issue conforms with such person’s propensity to commit said bad acts
• “Use of Evid.R. 404(b) evidence carries with it the risk of the ‘forbidden inference’ that a person’s bad act on a prior occasion shows that the act now at issue conforms with such person’s propensity to commit said bad acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).