State v. Ardizzone

Defendant appeals a judgment convicting him of solicitation to commit aggravated murder. The trial court admitted “other acts” evidence, over his objection, about his earlier conviction for soliciting the murder of the same victim. In defendant’s first three assignments of error, he contends that the other acts evidence was inadmissible to prove his intent to solicit the commission of aggravated murder because he never stipulated to the charged conduct and the trial court failed to instruct the jury that it should not consider the evidence unless it first determined that the charged conduct…