State v. Prange

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of menacing, ORS 163.190, and disorderly conduct, ORS 166.025. At trial, defendant sought to challenge the victim’s credibility by offering evidence of hostilities between the victim and victim’s wife and the defendant’s stepdaughter, which, defendant contended, motivated the victim to make false accusations against him. The trial court excluded that evidence as impermissible prior bad acts evidence under OEC 404(3) and as irrelevant. On appeal, defendant contends that evidence that the victim’s wife had called defendant’s stepdaughter a name…