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GLENN CHARLES AGEE" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "GREENE, Judge.\nDefendant appeals his conviction of felonious possession of LSD under Section 90-95(a)(3). In March 1987, a police officer stopped defendant who was operating an automobile carrying several other passengers. After searching defendant for weapons and searching the rest of the car, the officer charged defendant with: 1) driving while impaired; 2) driving with a revoked license; 3) displaying a fictitious license plate; 4) misdemeanor possession of marijuana; and 5) felonious possession of LSD. The district court judge acquitted defendant of the misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge as well as all other misdemeanor offenses except the driving-while-impaired charge.\nPrior to trial of the felonious possession of LSD charge in superior court, defendant moved in limine to exclude any reference to his arrest for the offenses of which he was acquitted. Defendant based his motion on the Fourteenth Amendment, the \u201claw of the land\u201d clause of our state constitution, and various state rules of evidence. Defendant contended that, since defendant had been acquitted of the marijuana offense, evidence of defendant\u2019s marijuana possession was \u201cres judicata\u201d and had \u201cno further life in the criminal justice system, and [was] irrelevant for any purpose at this particular point in time.\u201d Defense counsel furthermore stated that:\nI know that at some point in time [the prosecutor] will probably argue that [the arrests] are part of the res gestae of what happened here. But since there has already been a prior judicial disposition, their effect is \u2014 the prejudicial affect is far outweighing the probative value to this defendant.\nCounsel contended that the State had ample other evidence from which it could show why defendant was stopped while operating his automobile.\nThe prosecutor responded:\nYour honor, it\u2019s my understanding that with respect to the possession of marijuana, that this is a situation where the defendant had the item on his person. Apparently during the handling of the matter in district court, the lab results were not yet back at the time of disposition of the driving cases and all were called for trial and, therefore, there was no choice. There was just no lab report to submit. Judge Hair entered a not guilty [sic] with respect to that. We would suggest, however, to the Court that under the rules of evidence, it is a \u201cprior conduct\u201d that is wrongful, and we should not be barred from going into that particular aspect of the case.\nDefense counsel did not dispute this characterization of the trial in district court.\nAfter hearing these arguments, the trial court made the following ruling:\nAs to the marijuana, I can see where that may be relevant as to what action took place on the evening ... it would be inappropriate as to what \u2014 to talk about what took place in district court as to whether he was found guilty or not guilty, for the State to refer to that. But as to the transactions that went on that evening between the officer and the defendant at this point I think would be relevant to just what transpired out there, would be relevant to the case, and I will deny the motion in limine as to that.\nDefense counsel objected to that ruling and stated that, since the court was going to allow the State to introduce evidence that defendant possessed marijuana during his arrest, defendant \u201cmay feel compelled to introduce evidence he was found not guilty of having marijuana.\u201d\nAt trial, the State introduced the arresting officer\u2019s testimony that he had seen defendant throw a red object to the floor of the car and that a subsequent search had disclosed a red cigarette box which contained LSD. The following exchange occurred during the arresting officer\u2019s direct examination:\nQ: When you got the passengers out of the vehicle, what, if anything, did you note about the person of those individuals?\nA: They were all very well inebriated.\nQ: What then occurred, Officer Thomas?\nA: Once Officer Varner and Captain Neisham got there, we started to search the subject for our safety, and . . . since I had advised Mr. Agee that he was under arrest for driving while impaired, I patted \u2014 well I, I searched him for weapons before I placed my handcuffs on him and was going to transport him to our police station.\nQ: What occurred as a result of your search of his person, sir?\nA: As I was searching him, when I checked his right rear pocket, I found a plastic bag\u2014\nMr. Herzog: Objection.\nThe Court: Overruled.\nQ: What did you find, sir?\nA: I found a plastic bag with a green vegetable matter inside of it.\nMr. Herzog: Move to strike.\nCourt: Overruled.\nAfter the officer testified concerning his familiarity with the appearance of marijuana, the trial court allowed the officer to state his opinion that the \u201cgreen vegetable matter\u201d was marijuana, but did not allow the officer to testify as to any subsequent laboratory testing done on the alleged marijuana.\nDuring his subsequent direct examination, defendant also recounted the events of his arrest and added the following admission:\nQ: Okay. What happened when you proceeded to the front of the car with Patrolman Thomas?\nA: He patted me down, and I had, you know \u2014 he patted me down at the front of the car.\nQ: Okay. After that happened, what happened?\nA: He patted me down and he found something in my pocket.\nQ: What was in your pocket?\nA: A bag of marijuana.\nThe defendant presented other evidence that the cigarette pack containing the LSD belonged to another passenger in the car; the other passenger himself testified that the LSD belonged to him and that defendant did not know of its existence; however, the passenger had difficulty identifying other persons in the car on the night of defendant\u2019s arrest. The jury convicted defendant of felonious possession of LSD. Defendant appeals.\nThese facts present the following issues: I) where, at a trial for LSD possession, the State introduces evidence tending to show defendant possessed marijuana the time of his arrest although defendant was previously acquitted of that offense, (A) what requirements must defendant show in order to exclude such evidence under double jeopardy collateral estoppel? and (B) has defendant shown such requirements?; and II) if the admission of such evidence was not constitutionally estopped, whether defendant\u2019s admission he in fact possessed marijuana waived any objection under Rule 403 of our Rules of Evidence.\nI\nOn appeal, defendant contends his acquittal of the misdemeanor marijuana possession charge collaterally estopped the State in the subsequent LSD trial from introducing any evidence tending to show defendant possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest. Defendant specifically bases his contention on Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 90 S.Ct. 1189, 25 L.Ed. 2d 469 (1970). In Ashe, the United States Supreme Court held the doctrine of collateral estop-pel is part of the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy.\n\u2018Collateral estoppel\u2019 is an awkward phrase, but it stands for an extremely important principle in our adversary system of justice. It means simply that when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit . . . The federal decisions have made clear that the rule of collateral estoppel in criminal cases is not to be applied with the hypertechnical and archaic approach of a 19th century pleading book, but with realism and rationality. Where a previous judgment of acquittal was based upon a general verdict, as is usually the case, this approach requires the court to \u2018examine the record of a prior proceeding, taking into account the pleadings, evidence, charge, and other relevant matter, and conclude whether a rational jury could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration.\u2019 The inquiry \u2018must be set in a practical frame and viewed with an eye to all the circumstances of the proceedings\u2019 . . . Any test more technically restrictive would, of course, simply amount to a rejection of the rule of collateral estoppel in criminal proceedings, at least in every case where the first judgment was based upon a general verdict of acquittal.\n397 U.S. at 443-44, 90 S.Ct. at 1194, 25 L.Ed. 2d at 475-76 (emphasis added) (citations omitted). While there are arguably sources of collateral estoppel other than the Fifth Amendment, the only source of collateral estoppel argued in defendant\u2019s brief and consequently addressed in this opinion is the federal constitutional protection against double jeopardy, and will sometimes hereafter be called \u201cdouble jeopardy collateral estoppel.\u201d N.C.R. App. 28(b)(5); see 2 W. LaFave and J. Israel, Criminal Procedure Sec. 17.4(a) at 387 (1984) (noting other possible constitutional and state sources of collateral estoppel).\nDouble jeopardy collateral estoppel is based upon \u201cconsiderations of judicial economy, conservation of public funds, and avoidance of multiple litigations underlying the doctrine. Implicit, of course, in any limitation on relitigation of issues already determined in the criminal context is an appreciation of the substantial burdens, psychological as well as otherwise, placed on one who must defend against criminal prosecution.\u201d Phillips v. United States, 502 F. 2d 227, 230 (4th Cir. 1974), vacated on other grounds, 518 F. 2d 108 (4th Cir. 1975) (per curiam) (en banc). Thus, given the interests protected by double jeopardy collateral estoppel, defendant\u2019s admission on direct examination that he possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest did not waive this constitutional objection since its basis is defendant\u2019s right not to be compelled to relitigate an ultimate fact issue previously found in his favor. Once the State was permitted to introduce such evidence, the alleged prejudice to that right had already occurred. Defendant\u2019s subsequent admission he possessed marijuana was not inconsistent with insisting the bar against double jeopardy had been violated. See State v. Gaiten, 277 N.C. 236, 239, 176 S.E. 2d 778, 781 (1970) (may waive constitutional objection by express consent, failure to assert in time, or conduct inconsistent with purpose of objection).\nWe also note that the Ashe Court referred only to the preclusive effect of \u201cultimate\u201d fact issues \u2014 rather than \u201cevidentiary\u201d fact issues. The admittedly subtle distinction between the two was stated by our Supreme Court in Farmers Bank v. Michael T. Brown Distributors, Inc., 307 N.C. 342, 346, 298 S.E. 2d 357, 359 (1983):\nThere are two kinds of facts: Ultimate facts, and eviden-tiary facts. Ultimate facts are the final facts required to establish the plaintiff\u2019s cause of action or the defendant\u2019s defense; and evidentiary facts are those subsidiary facts required to prove the ultimate facts . . . Ultimate facts are those found in that vaguely defined area lying between evidential facts on the one side and conclusions of law on the other . . . An ultimate fact is the final resulting effect which is reached by processes of logical reasoning from the evidentiary facts . . .\n(quoting Woodard v. Mordecai, 234 N.C. 463, 470-72, 67 S.E. 2d 639, 644-45 (1951)).\nA\nThe first requirement defendant must show in order to claim double jeopardy collateral estoppel is that the issue he seeks to foreclose in his second trial has necessarily been determined in his favor as an ultimate fact issue:\nUnder the doctrine of collateral estoppel, an issue of ultimate fact, once decided by a valid and final judgment, cannot again be litigated in any future lawsuit. Subsequent prosecution is barred only if the jury could not rationally have based its verdict on an issue other than the one the defendant seeks to foreclose . . . When a \u2018fact is not necessarily determined in the former trial, the possibility that it may have been does not prevent re-examination of that issue.\u2019 . . . Thus, in determining whether this aspect [emphasis added] of double jeopardy acts to bar subsequent prosecution, \u2018unrealistic and artificial speculation about some far-fetched theory upon which the jury might have based its verdict of acquittal\u2019 is foreclosed ... In advancing a collateral estoppel double jeopardy defense, the defendant has the burden of persuasion.\nState v. Edwards, 310 N.C. 142, 145, 310 S.E. 2d 610, 613 (1984) (emphasis in original) (citations omitted).\nHowever, the Edwards Court recognized a second \u201caspect\u201d to double jeopardy collateral estoppel which must additionally be established in order to invoke the doctrine:\nFinally, and of particular importance to our decision in this case, we must emphasize that the \u2018same evidence\u2019 test is not the measure of collateral estoppel in effect here. The determinative factor is not the introduction of the same evidence . . . but rather whether it is absolutely necessary to defendant\u2019s conviction . . . that the second jury find against defendant on an issue upon which the first jury found in his favor . . . \u2018[T]he \u201csame evidence \u201d could, in an appropriate case, conceivably be introduced at the second trial for an entirely different purpose than that which it served at the earlier trial' . . . The State was not precluded from introducing evidence, albeit the \u2018same evidence\u2019 tending to implicate defendant [in the commission of the first crime] where the sole [and different] purpose of the evidence was to prove ... an issue which was neither raised nor resolved by his acquittal . . .\n310 N.C. at 144-46, 310 S.E. 2d at 613-14 (emphasis added) (quoting Triano v. Superior Court of New Jersey, 393 F. Supp. 1061, 1070 n.8 (D.N.J. 1975), aff'd per curiam, 523 F. 2d 1052 (3d Cir. 1975)).\nThus, defendant has the burden to show two requirements in order to invoke double jeopardy collateral estoppel under the Edwards interpretation of Ashe. First, the previous jury\u2019s acquittal must necessarily be based upon an ultimate fact issue which defendant seeks to foreclose in a subsequent trial. E.g., State v. Alston, 323 N.C. 614, 616-17, 374 S.E. 2d 247, 249 (1988) (no estoppel where previous acquittal of firearm possession at 3:30 a.m. did not necessarily determine whether defendant had firearm at 12:00 a.m. in subsequent armed robbery trial). Second, it must be \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d to defendant\u2019s conviction of the second offense that the second jury find against defendant on the same fact issue the first jury necessarily found in his favor. Cf. State v. McKenzie, 292 N.C. 170, 232 S.E. 2d 424 (1977) (estoppel shown where first jury necessarily found defendant did not violate drunk driving statute which was essential element on which State attempted to obtain contrary finding in involuntary manslaughter trial).\nWe note the Triano decision on which the Edwards Court relied arose from that defendant\u2019s contention that he could not even be indicted for the second offense. Triano, 393 F. Supp. at 1071. Under Edwards, the issues whether double jeopardy collateral estoppel bars re-prosecution after an acquittal and, if not, what evidence from that prior trial may be introduced in the re-prosecution apparently both turn on the same elements of double jeopardy collateral estoppel. Compare Edwards, 310 N.C. at 143, 310 S.E. 2d at 611 (primary issue is whether Court of Appeals erred in holding double jeopardy prevented introduction of evidence of larceny of which defendant acquitted) with id. at 144, 310 S.E. 2d at 612 (issue presented is whether defendant\u2019s re-prosecution for breaking and entering was barred by earlier larceny acquittal); cf. N.C.G.S. Sec. 15A-954(7) (1988) (must dismiss prosecution if issue of fact or law previously adjudicated in defendant\u2019s favor is \u201cessential\u201d to successful prosecution).\nThus, double jeopardy collateral estoppel under Edwards does not preclude the State from introducing evidence tending to show defendant committed an offense of which he was previously acquitted unless the evidence is introduced for the purpose of proving a fact issue (1) which was necessarily determined in defendant\u2019s favor by his earlier acquittal and (2) which is absolutely necessary to convict defendant of the second offense. Professor LaFave has explained the rationale of permitting the introduction of evidence of criminal counts of which the defendant has been acquitted:\n[T]he acquittal only is a bar to a later determination that there is not a reasonable doubt on the same fact issue . . . The failure to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt does not foreclose proof of the same crime by a preponderance of the evidence at a [parole] revocation proceeding ... On similar reasoning, it certainly may be argued that notwithstanding a defendant\u2019s prior acquittal of a certain crime, evidence of that crime may be received in a later prosecution under some exception to the \u201cother crimes\u201d rule (e.g., that it help show identity or motive in the instant case). In such a situation, proof of the prior crime is an \u2018evidentiary fact\u2019 rather than an \u2018ultimate fact\u2019 in the second prosecution, and as such it is not a matter the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt but rather is a matter which, if proved by preponderance of the evidence, can contribute to a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt for the second crime. However, the courts are not in agreement as to how Ashe should be applied in such circumstances.\n2 W. LaFave, Sec. 17.4(a) at 384-85; see also Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. ---, 108 S.Ct. 1496, 1501, 99 L.Ed. 2d 771, 780-81 (1988) (\u201cother crimes\u201d evidence under Rule 404(b) need only be proved by preponderance of evidence for admission).\nDespite the dissent\u2019s interpretation of Edwards, the facts of Edwards illustrate how the Court applied both elements of its two-part test to permit the State to re-litigate \u201cevidentiary\u201d fact issues. In the Edwards defendant\u2019s first trial, the State attempted to prove defendant committed the crime of larceny by proving the essential elements of: (1) a wrongful taking and carrying away, (2) of the personal property of another, (3) without his consent, (4) with the intention to permanently deprive the owner of possession. Defendant was acquitted of the larceny charge. In defendant\u2019s subsequent trial for breaking or entering with the intent to commit a felony (i.e. larceny), the Edwards Court permitted the State to introduce evidence which had been admitted at the first trial. First, the State could introduce evidence from the first trial that defendant had actually broken into a store since \u201c[t]hat aspect of the offense was not at issue in and was not an element of the larceny charge.\u201d 310 N.C. at 146, 310 S.E. 2d at 614. Thus, defendant failed to show the evidence of his breaking and entering met the first requirement stated above.\nSecond, the Edwards Court also held the State could \u201cfurthermore\u201d introduce at defendant\u2019s second trial evidence which did tend to show defendant had committed the elements of larceny (which were necessarily at issue in the first trial) since the evidence was used at the second trial for a different purpose. The evidence was offered by the State at the second trial \u201cfor the sole purpose\u201d of proving \u201cthe defendant\u2019s intent to commit the crime of larceny, an issue which was neither raised nor resolved by his acquittal of the larceny charge.\u201d 310 N.C. at 146, 310 S.E. 2d at 614 (emphasis added). The issue of defendant\u2019s intent was a proper evidentiary issue at the Edwards defendant\u2019s first trial for larceny; however, since it was not an ultimate fact issue, the issue could be re-litigated since it was not \u201cresolved\u201d by the earlier acquittal and consequently it was not \u201cabsolutely necessary to defendant\u2019s conviction . . . that the second jury find against defendant on an issue upon which the first jury found in his favor . . . .\u201d 310 N.C. at 146, 310 S.E. 2d at 614.\nAs indicated by Professor LaFave, several federal circuits also adopt the Edwards Court\u2019s application of double jeopardy collateral estoppel to evidentiary issues. E.g., Flittie v. Solem, 751 F. 2d 967, 972 (8th Cir. 1985) (introduction of evidence not collaterally estopped since evidence used to prove \u201cevidentiary\u201d rather than \u201cultimate\u201d fact in second trial); Oliphant v. Koehler, 594 F. 2d 547, 555 (6th Cir. 1979) (although defendant acquitted of prior sexual assaults, State could introduce evidence of prior assaults to show plan or scheme in subsequent rape trial); United States v. Addington, 471 F. 2d 560, 567 n.5 (10th Cir. 1973) (fact of acquittal of prior offenses is important but not determinative factor in determining admissibility); see also United States v. Kills Plenty, 466 F. 2d 240, 243 (8th Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 410 U.S. 916, 93 S.Ct. 971, 35 L.Ed. 2d 278 (1973). (no double jeopardy collateral estoppel where fact issue previously resolved was not \u201cessential\u201d element of second charge).\nOn similar reasoning, various state courts also hold double jeopardy collateral estoppel does not prevent the State from introducing evidence of a crime of which defendant has been acquitted where the evidence is offered to prove an evidentiary fact issue requiring proof by only a preponderance of evidence. E.g., Commonwealth v. Hillebrand, 536 S.W. 2d 451, 453 (Ky. 1976); State v. Paridis, 106 Id. 117, 676 P. 2d 31, 37 (1983), cert. denied, 468 U.S. 1220, 104 S.Ct. 3592, 82 L.Ed. 2d 888 (1984); State v. Seftin, 125 N.H. 533, 485 A. 2d 284, 285 (1984); cf. State v. Suggs, 86 N.C. App. 588, 591-92, 359 S.E. 2d 24, 26-27, cert. denied, 321 N.C. 299, 362 S.E. 2d 786 (1987) (where defendant charged with offense and later acquitted, evidence of offense admissible before defendant\u2019s acquittal under Rule 404(b)); see generally Annotation, Admissibility of Evidence as to Other Offense as Affected by Defendant\u2019s Acquittal of That Offense, 25 A.L.R. 4th 934, secs. 5-6 (1983 & 1988 Supp.).\nIt appears one panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals initially rejected the requirement that the collaterally-estopped issue be essential to the second conviction in Phillips v. United States, 502 F. 2d 227, 232 (4th Cir. 1974) (collateral estoppel barred evidence defendant was present during robbery of which he was acquitted even though evidence offered to show defendant knew money he received was stolen). However, the first Phillips opinion was vacated by the court sitting en banc. Phillips v. United States, 518 F. 2d 108 (4th Cir. 1975) (per curiam) (en banc). Only four of the en banc judges discussed the first panel\u2019s specific analysis of double jeopardy collateral estoppel: those four rejected the first panel\u2019s analysis and stated the defendant\u2019s acquittal of bank robbery did not estop the government in a subsequent trial from showing defendant\u2019s \u201cguilty knowledge\u201d that the money he received was stolen by proving defendant had participated in the bank robbery. Id. at 109-10. Although it is difficult to determine the precedential effect of the per curiam decision in Phillips, the plurality\u2019s analysis appears to comport with the Edwards statement that evidence of a crime of which defendant has been acquitted may be used for a different purpose in a subsequent prosecution.\nAs noted above by Professor LaFave, and by the dissent, some federal circuits have expanded Ashe beyond its facts to preclude the introduction of evidence for any purpose if the evidence tends to show defendant committed a crime of which he has been acquitted. E.g., Wingate v. Wainwright, 464 F. 2d 209, 212-15 (5th Cir. 1972) (double jeopardy collateral estoppel bars introduction of same \u201cevidentiary facts\u201d for any purpose; estoppel not limited to issues essential to second conviction); accord Blackburn v. Cross, 510 F. 2d 1014, 1019 (5th Cir. 1975) (stating Wingate \u201cexpanded\u201d Ashe to include evidentiary as well as ultimate facts); United States v. Mespoulede, 597 F. 2d 329, 334-35 (2nd Cir. 1979); Albert v. Montgomery, 732 F. 2d 865, 869-70 (11th Cir. 1984) (bound by Fifth Circuit decisions).\nThe logic of this exception to the use of \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence under Rule 404(b) has been criticized. E.g., Hillebrand, 536 S.W. 2d at 453 (criticizing Wingate); 2 J. Weinstein and M. Berger, Wein-stein\u2019s Evidence Sec. 404[10] at 74-75 n.16 (1988) (characterizing as \u201cillogical\u201d the Wingate and Mespoulede extension of collateral estoppel to bar acquittal evidence under Rule 404(b)). However, we recognize that Wingate and its progeny do not purport to apply Ashe or the rules of evidence in a narrowly logical manner. Those courts have instead expanded Ashe based on admittedly persuasive policy grounds:\nWe do not perceive any meaningful difference in the quality of \u201cjeopardy\u201d to which a defendant is again subjected when the State attempts to prove his guilt by re-litigating a settled fact issue which depends upon whether the re-litigated issue is one of \u201cultimate\u201d fact or merely an \u201cevidentiary\u201d fact in the second prosecution ... It is fundamentally unfair and totally incongruous with our basic concepts of justice to permit the sovereign to offer proof that a defendant committed a specific crime which a jury of that sovereign has concluded that he did not commit. Otherwise a person could never remove himself from the blight and suspicious aura which surround an accusation that he is guilty of a specific crime. Wingate was charged with robbing Helman and Angel and as a result of those charges he endured the perils of trial. He was acquitted of those very charges and that should end the matter.\nWingate, 464 F. 2d at 213-15. Similarly, the Mespoulede Court stated that:\nThe essential point is that the defendant must defend against charges or factual allegations that he overcame in the earlier trial ... We do not rest our decision on the force of [Third or Fifth Circuit] precedent alone. To put it bluntly, to refuse to allow the assertion of collateral estoppel in this case would simply be inequitable.\nIndeed, the concerns quoted above echo those set forth in the Court of Appeals opinion below which the Edwards Court quoted at length:\nThe issue of defendant\u2019s participation in the . . . theft was tried and forever set at rest in the first trial. Having safely run that \u2018gauntlet\u2019 the defendant had a constitutional right not to again be jeopardized by that evidence. Though the crime that defendant was tried for this time ... is not the same crime that he was acquitted of by the first trial . . defendant\u2019s former jeopardy rights were nonetheless violated to the prejudice of his liberty, since the truth of the . . . evidence was again put in issue against him and no doubt contributed greatly to his conviction.\nEdwards, 310 N.C. at 144, 310 S.E. 2d at 612 (quoting State v. Edwards, 63 N.C. App. 92, 94, 304 S.E. 2d 245, 246 (1983)) (emphasis in original).\nHowever, the Edwards Court emphasized the Court of Appeals\u2019 contention that the \u201ctruth\u201d of the State\u2019s evidence had been forever settled for any purpose \u2014and then rejected it. Throughout its opinion, the Edwards Court emphasizes that the protection against double jeopardy precludes only the re-litigation of ultimate fact \u201cissues\u201d: it does not necessarily preclude the State from re-litigating the \u201ctruth\u201d of the evidence used to prove those issues. The Edwards Court clearly rejected the expansion of Ashe by Wingate which is premised on the assertion that collateral estoppel is not limited to issues which are essential to the second prosecution. While it may be argued that reconsideration of Edwards is desirable, we are bound until such reconsideration to apply both requirements which the Court set forth and then applied in determining the scope of double jeopardy collateral estoppel.\nB\n1. Ultimate Fact Issue Necessarily Determined by Defendant\u2019s Prior Acquittal\nMisdemeanor possession of marijuana requires two elements be proved beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) defendant\u2019s possession of a substance (2) which is marijuana. See N.C.G.S. Sec. 90-95(a)(3) (1985). Since the district court acquitted defendant of the misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession, defendant argues that acquittal necessarily precludes any reference to any of the facts underlying his arrest for that offense. This is incorrect: Ashe simply bars the re-litigation of those ultimate fact issues upon which the previous fact-finder necessarily based its verdict.\nAs defendant was acquitted in district court, there is no transcript of those prior proceedings, and thus no evidence concerning the first trial other than the verdict sheet and scattered references in the transcript of the second trial. However, it appears from the oral argument on defendant\u2019s motion in limine quoted earlier that the district court did not question testimony that the arresting officer found a bag of some substance on defendant. Absent laboratory analysis of that substance, the district court was simply not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance found was in fact marijuana.\nThus, viewing the circumstances of the district court proceeding with the \u201crealism and rationality\u201d required under Ashe, it appears the district court judge acquitted defendant because the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance possessed by defendant was marijuana: the only ultimate fact issue of preclusive effect arising from defendant\u2019s earlier acquittal is thus the identification of the substance as marijuana. At defendant\u2019s subsequent trial for LSD possession, the State introduced the arresting officer\u2019s testimony that he removed a plastic bag of \u201cgreen vegetable matter\u201d from defendant\u2019s person and that the substance was marijuana in his opinion. We conclude defendant has established the first requirement of double jeopardy collateral estoppel that the issue whether the substance he possessed was marijuana was decided in his favor by the district court judge.\n2. Necessity of Issue of Defendant\u2019s Marijuana Possession to Second Prosecution\nGiven the elements of felonious possession of LSD, it was certainly not \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d that the second jury find defendant possessed marijuana in order to convict him of felonious possession of LSD. The State offered the evidence of defendant\u2019s marijuana possession, and the court allowed it, for the purpose of establishing the \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d surrounding the alleged discovery of defendant\u2019s possession of LSD. The relevance of \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d evidence and similar evidence was stated in State v. Jenerette, 281 N.C. 81, 89, 187 S.E. 2d 735, 740 (1972):\n[I]t is equally well settled that all facts, relevant to the proof of the defendant\u2019s having committed the offense with which he is charged, may be shown by evidence, otherwise competent, even though that evidence necessarily indicates the commission by him of another criminal offense. . . . Thus, such evidence of other offenses is competent to . . . make out the res gestae, or to exhibit a chain of circumstances in respect of the matter on trial, when such crimes are so connected with the offense charged as to throw light upon one or more of these questions.\n(quoting State v. Atkinson, 275 N.C. 288, 312-13, 167 S.E. 2d 241, 256 (1969)) (emphasis added); accord State v. Shane, 304 N.C. 643, 654, 285 S.E. 2d 813 (1982), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1104, 104 S.Ct. 1604 (1983) (\u201cother crimes\u201d evidence relevant if bears upon \u201cconnected crimes\u201d); State v. McMillan, 59 N.C. App. 396, 401, 297 S.E. 2d 164, 167 (1982) (permitting use of \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d evidence); see generally 1 H. Brandis, Jr., Brandis on North Carolina Evidence Sec. 92 at 352 n.19 (1982 & 1986 Cum. Supp.) (collecting cases permitting \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence to prove \u201cchain of events\u201d or res gestae). The adoption of Rule 404(b) of the North Carolina Rules of Evidence has not changed this result. N.C.G.S. Sec. 8C-1, Rule 404(b) (1986) comment (\u201cSubdivision (b) is consistent with North Carolina practice\u201d); 1 H. Brandis, Sec. 92 at 352 n.19 (1986 Cum. Supp.) (Rule 404(b) still permits proof of connected crimes). We also note the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the identical federal version of Rule 404(b) permits the introduction of \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence to establish the \u201csetting\u201d of the offense as well as other aspects of what is loosely called the res gestae of the offense. United States v. Masters, 622 F. 2d 83, 86-88 (4th Cir. 1980).\nAs further discussed below, the prejudicial impact of \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence used in this manner will often outweigh the probative value of the State\u2019s establishing the factual setting of the defendant\u2019s alleged crime; however, so long as the two-part Edwards test is otherwise met, there is no infringement of defendant\u2019s double jeopardy rights in using evidence of a crime of which defendant has been acquitted in order to establish the chain of circumstances surrounding the offense.\nThe State\u2019s evidence of defendant\u2019s marijuana possession was in fact offered for a different (and proper) purpose at his trial for possession of LSD, i.e., to establish the circumstances surrounding his alleged possession of LSD. Accordingly, we conclude under Edwards that defendant has failed to show all the requirements necessary for establishing double jeopardy collateral estoppel. We consequently hold that constitutional ground was not a proper basis for excluding the disputed evidence.\nII\nIrrespective of the scope of double jeopardy collateral estoppel under Edwards, the fact of defendant\u2019s acquittal of marijuana possession is relevant to the admission of this evidence:\n[Otherwise relevant and admissible evidence of another offense is not rendered inadmissible by the fact that the defendant was tried and acquitted of that offense, except to the extent that the acquittal may he a factor to be included in balancing the probative value of the evidence against the prejudicial impact, and in determining the threshold question as to whether the evidence of the other offense is sufficiently convincing [by a preponderance of the evidence] to warrant its admission . . .\nAnnot., 25 A.L.R. 4th at 943 (emphasis added).\nDuring the hearing on his motion in limine, defendant contended that the prejudicial impact of introducing evidence of his marijuana possession would outweigh whatever probative value the evidence had for the State\u2019s case. Rule 403 of our Rules of Evidence states, \u201cAlthough relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.\u201d N.C.G.S. Sec. 8C-1, Rule 403 (1986). In weighing the probative value of this evidence against its prejudicial impact, we note the reason that \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d evidence is probative at all is its relevance in establishing the \u201ccontext\u201d of the crime charged: \u201c[T]here is no reason to fragmentize the event under inquiry by suppressing part of the res gestae . . . The jury is entitled to know the setting of a case. It cannot be expected to make its decision in a void \u2014 without knowledge of the time, place and circumstances of the acts which form the basis of the charge.\u201d Masters, 622 F. 2d at 86 (citations and footnotes omitted).\nGiven the facts of this case, it would appear the arresting officer\u2019s opinion defendant possessed marijuana was of minimal probative value at best since the purposes for admitting \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d evidence could have easily been accomplished without the arresting officer\u2019s opinion. Furthermore, the risk of prejudice to the defendant was significant since both the marijuana possession the State sought to prove as well as the LSD possession charged were similar narcotics offenses. We believe that in nearly all cases the prejudicial impact of \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence will outweigh its probative value under Rule 403 where the defendant has actually been acquitted of the \u201cother crime\u201d and the purpose of the evidence is simply to establish the chain of circumstances surrounding the defendant\u2019s offense.\nHowever, we note defendant has arguably waived any objection under Rule 403 on appeal since his brief limits itself to the constitutional basis of his objection. Cf. N.C.R. App. 28(b)(5) (assignment of error without argument is abandoned). In any event, the instant case presents the unique circumstance that the defendant admitted during his direct examination the truth of the State\u2019s allegation that he possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest. At the least, this circumstance precludes any argument based on his acquittal that the State did not prove by a preponderance of evidence that defendant possessed marijuana: although the arresting officer\u2019s testimony was simply some evidence defendant possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest, defendant\u2019s admission removed all uncertainty about the identity of the substance.\nMore important, defendant\u2019s admission that he possessed marijuana waived any objection he may have had under Rule 403 to the arresting officer\u2019s testimony that he possessed marijuana. It is well-settled that a defendant waives his objection to evidence of his prior misconduct by subsequently introducing similar evidence without objection, unless he does so in order to \u201cexplain the evidence of his prior misconduct, or to destroy its probative value, or to contradict it with other evidence . . .\u201d State v. Wills, 293 N.C. 546, 551, 240 S.E. 2d 328, 331 (1977). In Wills, the defendant objected to evidence that he confessed to a prior breaking and entering. The Wills defendant took the stand to contradict that evidence but, in so doing, admitted he broke into the same store on another occasion. The Wills Court held defendant had waived his objection to the State\u2019s introduction of evidence of the prior offenses:\nDefendant\u2019s testimony in the present case regarding the September break-in was not an attempt to explain or contradict the evidence of his prior misconduct; nor was it an attempt to impeach the credibility or to establish the incompetency of the testimony. Instead, the witness was simply producing the same and additional evidence of the facts that had already been testified to over his objection. See 1 Stansbury, North Carolina Evidence Sec. 30, p. 80 (Brandis ed. 1973). In denying that he had confessed [to a break-in], defendant added that he had . . . attempted to break into the same store [previously], . . . Such testimony does not come within the requirements ... for the preservation of the exception to the allegedly improper testimony. Hence, we hold that, by presenting the same evidence on his direct examination as was earlier presented by the State, the defendant waived the benefit of his earlier objection to that evidence.\n293 N.C. at 551-52, 240 S.E. 2d at 331 (emphasis added). While the defendant in Wills had not been acquitted of the other offenses the State sought to prove, we note our Supreme Court subsequently applied Wills in holding a defendant waived his objection to being questioned concerning crimes of which he had been acquitted where he later testified at length about the trial of those crimes. N.C. State Bar v. DuMont, 52 N.C. App. 1, 23, 277 S.E. 2d 827, 840 (1981), modified and aff\u2019d, 304 N.C. 627, 631, 286 S.E. 2d 89, 92 (1982) (Supreme Court specifically adopting Court of Appeals on this point).\nAlthough defense counsel stated during argument on the motion in limine that he might feel compelled to offer evidence the defendant was acquitted of the marijuana possession charge, he never did so. Cf. State v. Calloway, 268 N.C. 359, 150 S.E. 2d 517 (1966) (per curiam) (where evidence of prior crimes offered, error to exclude defendant\u2019s explanation that he had been acquitted of prior crimes or that convictions were reversed); 1 H. Brandis, Sec. 143 at 568-69 (defendant may introduce evidence of prior judgments or judicial findings to establish res judicata). As in Wills, the defendant here did not attempt to explain or contradict the evidence of his alleged crime, but instead decided to corroborate the State\u2019s evidence with his own testimony. We may speculate that defendant was attempting to enhance the credibility of his testimony concerning his possession of LSD by admitting his misdemeanor possession of marijuana; however, any attempt to enhance the credibility of his testimony on other points does not come within the exception to the waiver rule that the defendant only may explain the evidence of his prior misconduct, destroy its probative value, or contradict it with other evidence. Defendant\u2019s apparent decision to risk further prejudice to his case in order to secure some tactical advantage is simply inconsistent with any claim that he was unduly prejudiced by the admission of this disputed evidence. Under Wills and DuMont, we thus have no choice but to conclude that defendant waived his objection under Rule 403 to the admission of this evidence.\nIn passing, we also note defendant asserts he was entitled either to a requested instruction or a pattern instruction on the issue of his identity as the perpetrator of the crime of possessing LSD. However, there was no issue as to defendant\u2019s identity as the driver of the car where the LSD was discovered. We find no facts in the record which would otherwise require defendant\u2019s requested instructions on the issue of identity.\nNo error.\nJudge EAGLES concurs in the result.\nJudge BECTON dissents.", "type": "majority", "author": "GREENE, Judge." }, { "text": "Judge BECTON\ndissenting.\nBelieving that this case is controlled by Ashe v. Swenson, and, therefore, that the trial court committed reversible error by permitting the State to present evidence of defendant\u2019s alleged marijuana possession in his subsequent trial for possession of LSD, I dissent.\nFirst, the majority\u2019s reliance on State v. Edwards is misplaced. In Edwards, the State was permitted to introduce evidence of the defendant\u2019s participation in a larceny \u2014 even though he had been acquitted of that crime \u2014 in a later trial on a related charge of breaking or entering with the intent to commit larceny. The Edwards court explained that the \u201csole purpose [for introducing] the evidence was to prove defendant\u2019s [larcenous] intent . . ., an issue . . . neither raised nor resolved by his [prior] acquittal. . . .\u201d 310 N.C. at 146, 310 S.E. 2d at 614. The court reasoned that the collateral estoppel rule recognized in Ashe did not bar this evidence since intent to commit larceny was not an element of the crime of larceny and was not an issue decided in the prior action. Id. at 146, 310 S.E. 2d at 613-14. In the case before us, defendant\u2019s possession of marijuana was an element of the crime charged, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and was an issue decided in the first trial. Accordingly, the doctrines of collateral estoppel and double jeopardy precluded presentation of that evidence in the subsequent trial since the issue was necessarily decided in defendant\u2019s favor. See Ashe, 397 U.S. at 445, 25 L.Ed. 2d at 476; State v. McKenzie, 292 N.C. 170, 175, 232 S.E. 2d 424, 428 (1977).\nFurthermore, I take issue with the majority\u2019s citation of State v. Suggs as a case implicitly supporting its interpretation of Edwards. In Suggs, the defendant was acquitted of the \u201cother crime\u201d at issue several months after the trial from which defendant appealed. 86 N.C. App. at 590, 359 S.E. 2d at 26. Suggs is inapposite.\nSecond, I am not persuaded by the majority\u2019s conclusion that evidence of marijuana possession was admissible under a \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d exception to the \u201cother crimes\u201d rule as that rule is recognized in this state. The chain of circumstances cases cited by the majority were decided long before the Rules of Evidence were adopted. Rule 404(b) now provides the governing standard for the admission of \u201cother crimes\u201d evidence. That rule, in my view, would not permit the present evidence to be introduced.\nRule 404(b) lists several exceptions to the general prohibition against introduction of evidence of \u201cother crimes\u201d; \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d is not one of these. See N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 8C-1, R. Evid. 404(b) (1988). Although the list in Rule 404 is not exhaustive, State v. Morgan, 315 N.C. 626, 637, 340 S.E. 2d 84, 91 n.2 (1986), no cases decided after the rule was adopted expand that list to include \u201cchain of circumstances.\u201d See, e.g., State v. Ruffin, 90 N.C. App. 705, 709, 370 S.E. 2d 275, 277 (1988). Moreover, none of the pre-Rule 404 cases that allowed evidence of \u201cother crimes\u201d to be introduced to establish the \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d involved crimes for which the defendant had been charged and acquitted. See, e.g., Jenerette. Edwards, which was decided before the adoption of the Rules of Evidence, was not a \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d case. In my view, the State\u2019s attempt to relitigate the possession of marijuana issue under the guise of \u201cchain of circumstances\u201d was barred by collateral estoppel. See Albert v. Montgomery, 732 F. 2d 865, 869-70 (11th Cir. 1984); Wingate v. Wainwright, 464 F. 2d 209, 215 (5th Cir. 1972). See also Blackburn v. Cross, 510 F. 2d 1014, 1017 (5th Cir. 1975) (collateral estoppel extends to evidentiary as well as ultimate facts). The most the State needed to show to put the LSD charge \u201cin context\u201d was that defendant was stopped for an alleged vehicular violation and that LSD was found in the car. Possession of marijuana formed no permissible link in the so-called \u201cchain of circumstances.\u201d\nThird, evidence of defendant\u2019s possession of marijuana was irrelevant to the separate substantive offense of possession of LSD. The majority\u2019s conclusion that the evidence \u201cwas certainly not \u2018absolutely necessary\u2019 ... to convict him of felonious possession of LSD,\u201d shows the irrelevancy of the challenged evidence. In any event, as the majority concedes, even had defendant\u2019s marijuana possession been remotely relevant, its prejudicial impact far outweighed any probative value it might have had. See State v. McDowell, 93 N.C. App. 289, 378 S.E. 2d 48 (1989) (flight evidence to show how stolen property came into police custody was of dubious relevancy, and, in any event, should have been excluded due to danger of unfair prejudice).\nFinally, defendant did not waive his constitutional, relevancy, or prejudicial objections to the State\u2019s evidence of marijuana possession by his subsequent reference to the marijuana on direct examination. The damage had already been done. In my view, defendant chose the only course he could: to address that prejudicial evidence head-on, with the aim of bolstering his credibility in the hope that the jury would conclude that he was \u201cbeing completely open and straightforward and worthy of belief.\u201d State v. Hedgepeth, 66 N.C. App. 390, 400, 310 S.E. 2d 920, 925 (1984). Cf. Jones v. Bailey, 246 N.C. 599, 602, 99 S.E. 2d 768, 771 (1957); State v. Wells, 52 N.C. App. 311, 315, 278 S.E. 2d 527, 530 (1981) (no waiver of objection to introduction of incompetent evidence by later attempt to explain or destroy probative value of that evidence). Had defendant failed to respond to the officer\u2019s testimony, the jury would have been left with the impression that he was dishonest about the marijuana, and so probably also lied about the LSD. Wills, upon which the majority relies to conclude that defendant waived his objection to introduction of the evidence of marijuana possession, did not involve an objection to constitutionally impermissible evidence, that is, evidence of another crime for which defendant had been acquitted. See Wills, 293 N.C. at 550, 240 S.E. 2d at 330-31 (there defendant suffered no violation of a specific constitutional right, and his subsequent testimony was not induced by erroneous admission of evidence of prior crime).\nIn short, defendant\u2019s possession of marijuana played no permissible part in establishing the context of his arrest for possession of LSD. The error in admitting that evidence entitles defendant to a new trial.", "type": "dissent", "author": "Judge BECTON" } ], "attorneys": [ "Attorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Kaye R. Webb, for the State.", "Assistant Public Defender Paul F. Herzog for defendant-appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. GLENN CHARLES AGEE\nNo. 8812SC334\n(Filed 18 April 1989)\n1. Criminal Law \u00a7 26.5\u2014 double jeopardy collateral estoppel\u2014 admission by defendant \u2014 constitutional issue not waived\nDefendant\u2019s admission in a prosecution for felonious possession of LSD that he possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest did not waive his constitutional objection to double jeopardy collateral estoppel. Once the State was permitted to introduce such evidence, the alleged prejudice to that right had already occurred and defendant\u2019s subsequent admission that he possessed marijuana was not inconsistent with insisting the bar against double jeopardy had been violated.\n2. Criminal Law \u00a7 26.5\u2014 double jeopardy collateral estoppel-requirements\nA defendant has the burden of showing two requirements in order to invoke double jeopardy collateral estoppel: (1) the previous jury\u2019s acquittal must necessarily have been based on an ultimate fact issue which defendant seeks to foreclose in a subsequent trial; (2) it must be absolutely necessary to defendant\u2019s conviction of the second offense that the jury find against defendant on the same fact issue the first jury necessarily found in his favor.\n3. Criminal Law \u00a7 26.5\u2014 felonious possession of LSD \u2014concurrent possession of marijuana \u2014 double jeopardy collateral estoppel\nIn a prosecution for felonious possession of LSD in which defendant sought to exclude testimony regarding his concurrent arrest for possession of marijuana because he had been acquitted of the possession of marijuana charge in district court, the trial court correctly ruled that double jeopardy collateral estoppel was not a proper basis for excluding the disputed evidence because, while defendant established the first requirement of double jeopardy collateral estoppel in that the issue of whether the substance he possessed was marijuana was decided in his favor by the district court judge, the State\u2019s evidence of defendant\u2019s marijuana possession was offered for a different and proper purpose at his trial for possession of LSD, i.e., to establish the circumstances surrounding his alleged possession of LSD.\n4. Criminal Law \u00a7 34.2 \u2014 possession of LSD \u2014 evidence of concurrent possession of marijuana \u2014 objection waived\nIn a prosecution for felonious possession of LSD in which defendant sought to exclude evidence of his concurrent arrest for misdemeanor possession of marijuana, defendant waived his objection under N.C.G.S. \u00a7 8C-1, Rule 403 to the admission of the evidence by admitting during his direct examination the truth of the State\u2019s allegation that he possessed marijuana at the time of his arrest.\nJudge EAGLES concurs in the result.\nJudge BECTON dissenting.\nAppeal by defendant from Ellis (B. Craig), Judge. Judgment entered 10 November 1987 in Superior Court, CUMBERLAND County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 25 October 1988.\nAttorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Kaye R. Webb, for the State.\nAssistant Public Defender Paul F. Herzog for defendant-appellant." }, "file_name": "0346-01", "first_page_order": 376, "last_page_order": 398 }