Strauss v. Ayres

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• holding that trial court unsustainably exercised its discretion when it admitted prejudicial evidence for purpose of correcting potential misconceptions related to defendant’s testimony when prosecutor could have dispelled misconceptions by soliciting other, less prejudicial facts
• addressing the admission of prior bad act evidence pursuant to the opening the door doctrine
• \[E]vidence of prior wrongs is inadmissible to prove a disposition to commit such acts.\

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