Court Opinion

ID: 9507887
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:26:07.387648+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:24.833602
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE SHEA,
dissenting:
Generally, I agree with Justice Morrison in his conclusion that the offered evidence was not properly character evidence, and therefore, even if defendant opened the door, the offered evidence was inadmissible.
Beyond this, however, I believe that even if the evidence were admissible under the theory taken by the majority, the evidence was so highly prejudicial, so highly inflammable, that the trial court should not have admitted it in any event. It is but another example of the State seeking to achieve a conviction by any means possible, and in doing so stretching the law of evidence beyond the breaking point.