People of Michigan v. Darrell John Wilder

**60 This case presents the issue of how and when it is appropriate to impeach by contradiction using other-acts evidence. Because the prosecutor's tactics and questions violated several basic tenets of our rules of evidence, we reverse that part of the Court of Appeals' judgment holding that the cross-examination of defense witness Tameachi Wilder concerning whether she knew of defendant to carry guns and her knowledge of defendant's prior weapons convictions was not error, and we remand *278 this case to the Court of Appeals to consider whether the error was harmless.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL…