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inlawrev-2313	Snively, David F.	Time for Change: Evidentiary Safeguards Needed in Trials for Sexual Offenses	1978	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8877	381	52	See also Whitty V. State, 34 Wis. 2d 278. 292, 149 N.W.2d 557, 563 (1967), in which the Wisconsin Supreme Court stated that the character rule excluding prior crimes evidence as it relates to the guilt issue rests on four bases: (1) The overstrong tendency to believe the defendant guilty of the charge merely because he is a person likely to do such acts; (2) the tendency to condemn not because he is believed guilty of the present charge but because he has escaped punishment from other offenses; (3) the injustice of attack- ing one who is not prepared to demonstrate the attacking evidence is fabricated, and (4) the confusion of issues which might result from bringing in evidence of other crimes. As support for its own justi- fication of why evidence of prior sexual crimes should be relevant in a subsequent prosecution, the court in Markins cited six other jurisdictions whose holdings were in accord with that of Markins}^ The principal support for Markins was provided by People v. Jen- ness.^* In Jenness, as was true in Markins, the defendant had been convicted of incest.	cache/inlawrev-2313.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2313.txt