State v. Escalona

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statement that the defendant “already has a record and had stabbed someone” could not be cured by an instruction to the jury in a trial for second degree assault with a deadly weapon
• noting evidence rules prohibit admission of prior bad acts except in very limited circumstances
• granting mistrial where pretrial motion in limine to exclude any mention or reference to defendant’s prior conviction was violated by a witness’s statement that “[defendant] already has a record and had stabbed someone”
• “extremely serious” irregularity for jury to hear testimony in trial for assault with a deadly weapon that the defendant “already has a record and had stabbed someone”
• testimony that defendant previously stabbed someone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).