State v. Hamilton

*751On Supervisory Writs to the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans.

Writ granted in part. The district court’s reasons for judgment suggest the court erroneously believed that only prior crimes which demonstrate modus operan-di are admissible. Whatever the court’s reasons, however, La. C.E. art. 404(B) governs the admissibility of other crimes evidence.

The state filed a Priewr notice1 of intent to introduce evidence of two prior instances of defendant’s guilty pleas to attempted possession of a firearm: once with a revolver and once with an assault rifle. The state seeks to use evidence of…