State v. Murchison

Ordinarily, I believe the erroneous admission of prior convictions is prejudicial error. See State v. Eugene, 536 N.W.2d 692 (N.D.1995) (Levine, J., dissenting); State v. Bohe, 447 N.W.2d 277 (N.D.1989) (Levine, J., dissenting). I concur with the majority here only because Murchison raised an entrapment defense. When a defendant claims entrapment in a jurisdiction applying a subjective entrapment test, the government may rebut this defense with prior conviction evidence relevant to the defendant’s predisposition to commit the offense. See United States v. Bastanipour, 41 F.3d 1178 (7th…