State v. Womack-Grey

JjPER CURIAM.1

The erroneous introduction of evidence relating to a defendant’s prior bad acts risks “lur[ing] the fact-finder into declaring guilt on a ground different from proof specific to the offense charged ... [by] generalizing a defendant’s earlier bad act into bad character and taking that as raising the odds that he did the later bad act now charged.... ” Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, 180, 117 S.Ct. 644, 650, 136 L.Ed.2d 574 (1997). In the present ease, the court of appeal reversed respondent’s conviction and sentence for second degree murder in violation of La.R.S.…