State v. Jones

Defendant appeals his conviction for second-degree robbery, assigning error to the trial court’s admission of evidence of his convictions for three prior robberies. He argues, among other things, that the convictions were not relevant for the nonpropensity purposes that the state advanced and that admission of the evidence was not harmless. The state responds that the trial court did not err in admitting the convictions because they were relevant to defendant’s intent. We agree with defendant that the trial court erred in concluding that the evidence was relevant on any theory that the state…