State v. Barr

Defendant seeks reversal of three convictions for theft. In the alternative, he requests modification of the sentences imposed on those convictions, a conviction for failure to appear and a probation violation. He assigns as errors (1) the admission of evidence of a prior burglary conviction and an instruction referring to that conviction, (2) the admission of other “bad acts” evidence and (3) the imposition of five concurrent five-year sentences. We reverse.

At trial, the state introduced evidence that checks had been stolen from three separate businesses in the Portland metropolitan area…