State v. Madison

Defendant was convicted of resisting arrest. ORS 162.315. On appeal he assigned as error the denial of his pretrial "motion in limine” to exclude testimony relating to events preceding his arrest on the ground that any relevance of such evidence was outweighed by its prejudice and that such testimony would also improperly introduce evidence of other crimes. The Court of Appeals affirmed per curiam, 47 Or App 3, 613 P2d 110 (1980), citing State v. Hein, 31 Or App 147, 570 P2d 82 (1977). We allowed defendant’s petition for review.

This case presents two problems: (1) whether the denial of a…