The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of uncharged crimes, with suitable limiting instructions. Evidence of defendant's use of a firearm on certain relevant occasions was highly probative, given defendant's claim that at the time of the shooting he was physically incapable of holding or firing a handgun and thus could not have been the killer (see People v Alvino,
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