STATE v. BECKELHEIMER

No. 175PA11.

726 S.E.2d 156 (2012)

STATE of North Carolina v. Matthew Lee BECKELHEIMER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Anne M. Middleton , Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.

Thomas R. Sallenger , Wilson, for defendant-appellee.


HUDSON, Justice.

Here we address whether evidence of prior acts was properly admitted against defendant under Rule 404(b). We conclude that the trial court, after carefully evaluating the evidence, correctly ruled that the prior acts had sufficient similarity and temporal proximity to those alleged in the charged crimes. Therefore, we reverse the Court of Appeals.

Defendant, who was twenty-seven years old at the time of the alleged offenses, was indicted in...

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