Admission of Evidence – Court Discretion

By: Derek Hawkins//November 2, 2016//

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Eddie D. Walker

Case No.: 2015AP1748-CR; 2015AP1749-CR

Officials: Reilly, P.J., Gundrum and Hagedorn, JJ.

Focus: Admission of Evidence – Court Discretion

Eddie D. Walker appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of two counts of first-degree sexual assault and from an order denying postconviction relief. Walker’s convictions arise from two separate incidents involving different females, C.H. and J.N. Walker challenges the circuit court’s admission of evidence that he sexually assaulted a third female, B.V., on a different occasion. We conclude that the circuit court properly exercised its discretion in admitting the other acts evidence. We affirm.

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