State v. Sicks

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• generally, evidence of prior bad acts should be admitted to prove the required state of mind only when the defendant disputes whether he acted with that state of mind
• where the charged acts “would by themselves strongly indicate the required state of mind,” evidence of prior bad acts “should generally be admitted only if defendant concedes the alleged act but claims that it was inadvertent or innocent”
• where the charged acts ‘would by themselves strongly indicate the required state of mind,’ evidence of prior bad acts ‘should generally be admitted only if defendant concedes the alleged act but claims that it was inadvertent or innocent’
• “Where the charged acts, if proven, would by themselves strongly indicate the required state of mind, evidence of other similar acts should generally be admitted only if defendant concedes the alleged act but claims that it was inadvertent or innocent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).