Opinion ID: 1253404
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Heading: Campbell Revisited

Text: The defendant in the instant case argued that the decision in State Farm Mutual Insurance v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408, 123 S.Ct. 1513, 155 L.Ed.2d 585 (2003), was violated because the trial court allowed the introduction of evidence of unlawful out-of-state conduct by the defendant against nonlitigants. The majority opinion rejected this argument after finding that in this case, unlike Campbell, there was no evidence presented regarding specific unlawful acts against others perpetrated by Appellant. Majority slip op. at 13. [1] Because the jury was never presented with evidence of specific unlawful conduct committed by the defendant against nonlitigants, the majority correctly found that Campbell was not violated.