People v. Gregory

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of 1 count of threatening a public official and 3 counts of cyberstalking. Court erred by allowing into evidence 10 letters, read in their entirety, containing references to other crimes and prior bad acts. Although portions of letters had some relevance to issue of identity, abuse of discretion in admitting other portions of letters which contained large amounts of other-crimes evidence. Great risk that jury would find Defendant guilty of charges in light of his propensity, or that it would find Defendant guilty of one of the uncharged acts, so the letters' prejudicial effect overwhelmed their probative value. (JORGENSEN and BURKE, concurring.)