People v. Prince

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Del Giudice, J.), rendered May 14, 2014, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

“The People may not rely on prior bad acts as evidence of a defendant’s propensity to commit the crimes charged” (People v Frankline, 27 NY3d 1113, 1115 [2016], citing People v Molineux, 168 NY 264 [1901]). When such evidence, however, is directly relevant to some material issue other than the defendant’s propensity to commit…