Dockery v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SULLIVAN, Justice.

This case comes to us on the State's Petition to Transfer the decision of the Court of Appeals in Dockery v. State (1993), Ind.App., 622 N.E.2d 1346, reh'g denied. In that decision the Court of Appeals reversed Carl Dockery's conviction for Dealing in Cocaine because it concluded that the trial court improperly admitted evidence of prior bad acts offered by the State to rebut Dockery's entrapment defense. We agree with the Court of Appeals that Dockery's conviction must be reversed; we disagree, however, about the reasons why.

Facts

On October 18, 1992,…