UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This appeal presents two issues: whether the trial court improperly admitted evidence of defendant Gary Eugene Finchum's other crimes which was used to demonstrate that he was a bad person, and whether the trial court erred in mandatorily sentencing defendant to consecutive terms under section 901.8 of the Iowa Code of 1983.
The trial information charged that Finchum broke into the home of Hope Thompson in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the night...
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