Wages v. United States

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of assault with a dangerous weapon and several weapons offenses. On appeal, his primary claim of error is that the trial court allowed the prosecutor, without prior notice, to elicit “other crimes” evidence on redirect examination of the complaining witness to the effect that appellant had sought to bribe the witness not to testify at trial. We affirm.

I

The complaining witness, Lamont Wilson, was introduced to appellant in mid-January 1989, and soon thereafter agreed to sell crack cocaine for appellant. Appellant gave Wilson five bags of crack cocaine to…