State v. Jackson

Defendant was convicted by a jury of criminal activity in drugs, ORS 167.207, for a sale of heroin to an undercover police officer. He assigns as error on appeal the overruling of his objection to the state’s rebuttal evidence of a subsequent sale of narcotics by defendant and the denial of his motion to suppress the testimony of the undercover officer because of an asserted failure by the prosecution to comply with the discovery statutes, ORS 135.815.

1. Evidence of other crimes

The general rule is that evidence of other criminal or other socially disapproved acts by the defendant is…