State v. Vigil

OPINION

GERBER, Judge.

¶ 1 Appellant Thomas Vigil (defendant) appeals his conviction and sentence for drive-by shooting, a class 2 dangerous felony. The issue before us is whether the admission of two prior bad acts, under Arizona Rules of Evidence 404(b), constitutes reversible error.

FACTS

¶ 2 We review the facts in the light most favorable to sustaining the jury’s verdict. See State v. Atwood, 171 Ariz. 576, 596, 882 P.2d 593, 613 (1992). The defendant and Jessica Ronquillo (Ronquillo) lived in the same neighborhood. They had known each other since 1994. At that time, Ronquillo was seeing…