People v. Smith 

Defendant was charged by informatin with aggravated sexual abuse of his 8-year-old granddaughter. Court properly refused to admit evidence of Defendant's alleged sexual abuse of his sisters in the 1960s, and of his daughters in the 1970s and 1980s. Court's order did not condition the admissibility of any other-crimes evidence on satisfaction of a common law exception, but applied statutory factors for admissibility. The great time lapse between the offenses renders the prior offenses prejudicial, as for admissibility under Section 115-7.3, the prior offenses may not be too remote in time and must have some threshold similarity to the charged offense.(McDADE and CARTER, concurring.)