State v. Williams

The defendant appeals from her jury trial conviction for aggravated robbery, with a penalty-enhancing specification for possessing a firearm. She complains that the state sought to prove her guilt by showing her participation in a different robbery two years earlier. The circumstances of the earlier robbery lacked sufficient correlation to the present charge, and the remaining evidence of the offender’s identity was less than clear. Hence, we hold that the disputed evidence was prejudicially improper.

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The state relied on testimony from the victim of this offense, a victim of another robbery…