State v. Spreigl

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring that a defendant receive written notice of the additional crimes or misconduct that the prosecution seeks to prove at trial
• stating that evidence of other crimes is inadmissible except to establish motive, intent, absence of mistake, identity, or a common scheme or plan
• observing that evidence of other crimes is generally inadmissible except to establish motive, absence of mistake, identity, or common scheme or plan
• discussing admission of prior bad acts by the defendant that tend to prove the defendant committed the crime
• allowing the admission of evidence of other crimes to prove motive, intent, absence of mistake, identity, or common scheme or plan
• where identity is in issue and a defendant offers alibi evidence, the state is allowed to use Spreigl evidence to bolster its case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).