State v. Brown

In this criminal case, the issues are whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence of defendant’s prior convictions and how the analysis changes after a recent decision of the Oregon Supreme Court, State v. Williams, 357 Or 1, 346 P3d 455 (2015). Defendant was charged with first-degree theft, first-degree forgery, and first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument. At trial, defendant opposed, under OEC 404(3), the admission of evidence of his prior convictions. The trial court admitted that evidence for the purpose of demonstrating that defendant had knowledge that the checks…