P. v. Gregory
Defendant Mark Gregory is serving a five-year prison term for purchasing a car with fraudulent documents and an invalid check. Defendant argues the trial court should have granted his motion for a mistrial because jurors heard a partially redacted audio tape recording of him admitting to the above, but during which the investigating officer stated “I know a little bit about some other stuff that you have done in the past . . . .†As discussed below, the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it found that this vague comment was not significant enough in the context of the trial to alert the jury that defendant had prior convictions for theft.
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