State v. Willis

JOHNSON, Judge.

Defendant contends that the court erred in admitting evidence that he had been involved in other independent narcotics-*322related offenses. The court overruled defendant’s objection to testimony by one of the arresting officers that he had personally seen defendant selling heroin. This testimony came, however, after defendant had “opened the door” by eliciting the officer's admission that he had never seen defendant buy heroin. A similar situation arose with respect to polygraph evidence in State v. Small, 301 N.C. 407, 436, 272 S.E. 2d 128, 145-46 (1980):

Evidence which might not…