Court Opinion

ID: 9852121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:24:51.001557+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:22.810993
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Judge Edmunds
concuring in the result with a separate opinion.
Because our Supreme Court has held that Rule 404(b) permits evidence of another wrong to be admitted to establish intent where the crime at trial is a general intent offense, see State v. Pierce, 346 N.C. 471, 488 S.E.2d 576 (1997), I cannot agree with that portion of the opinion addressing intent or with footnote 2. However, I concur that admission of defendant’s 1994 assault in this instance merely showed his propensity to indulge in that kind of conduct and that its improperly prejudicial effect outweighed any probative value. See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8C-1, Rule 403 (1999).