Anthony Oral Craigg v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed the rape conviction and life-without-parole sentence, holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting appellant’s prior Oklahoma conviction under the pedophile exception to Rule 404(b). The prior offense was sufficiently similar, involved a relationship in which appellant occupied a caretaking position over a minor, and was not too remote despite occurring seventeen years earlier. The court declined to consider appellant’s separate argument that the conviction could not stand alone without factual details because he failed to preserve that argument below.