People v. Whittaker

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. However, the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded for a new trial. It found an abuse of discretion in the trial court’s decision to admit evidence of defendant’s prior delivery of cocaine and that the error more probably than not affected the jury’s verdict. We conclude that even if the evidence was improperly admitted, the defendant did not meet his burden of demonstrating that the error undermined the reliability of the verdict. We therefore reverse, and remand the case to the Court of Appeals for…