State v. Torres

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Leben, J.:

Pedro Torres was convicted of two counts of rape against the 11-year-old daughter of a woman who lived with Torres in Wichita. At trial, the State was allowed to present evidence related to Torres’ conviction nearly two decades earlier for one count of indecent liberties with a child — evidence that was admitted to show Torres’ plan by evidence that he had such a similar method of committing such crimes that it would be reasonable to conclude that he had committed this one based on the earlier one.

But our court has held that the prior crime…