State v. Jamison

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The crucial question we decide today involves the admissibility of other acts to establish an accused’s identity of the charged offenses. We find the other acts, i.e.-, robberies, forming a unique, identifiable plan of criminal activity, sufficiently probative as to identity to warrant their admission. To be admissible, these other acts must tend to show by substantial proof “identity” or other enumerated purposes under Evid. R. 404(B). Although the standard for admissibility is strict, the other acts need not be the same as or similar to the crime charged. We also find appellant’s other…