MATTHIAS, J.
Atteberry also claims that the trial court erred when it permitted the State’s witness to testify that Atteberry’s DNA was found in a national DNA database. Prior to the testimony of one of the State’s witnesses, Atteberry’s counsel notified the trial court that he was concerned that the witness would testify that Atteberry’s DNA had been in the CODIS database. Atteberry argued that because the DNA of convicted felons was in CODIS, any reference thereto would therefore place before the jury evidence of Atteberry’s prior criminal acts in contravention of Evidence Rule 404(b). The trial court ultimately allowed the witness to testify only that Atteberry’s DNA was located in a “national database,” but prohibited any mention of how Atteberry’s DNA was put into the database. The witness who mentioned the database testified only briefly and did not mention Atteberry’s prior convictions.
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The trial court in the present case specifically prohibited any direct mention of CODIS or its background and permitted the State’s witness to testify only that Atteberry’s DNA was in a national database. This evidence was relevant to show why Atteberry, living in St. Louis, was a suspect in an Indianapolis murder. There was no evidence which informed the jury that only convicted felons have their DNA profiles put into this national database.
Atteberry argues, however, the jury could have inferred that, because Atteberry’s DNA profile was in the database, he had been convicted in the past. This is nothing more than speculation. Moreover, evidence which creates a mere inference of prior bad conduct does not fall within the purview of Evidence Rule 404(b). Rogers, 897 N.E.2d at 960 n.3 (citing Dixson v. State, 865 N.E.2d 704, 712 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007), trans. denied). We therefore cannot agree with Atteberry that the admission of evidence that his DNA profile was found in a national database constituted inadmissible evidence of his prior felony convictions. [Footnote omitted.]
RILEY, J., and KIRSCH, J., concur.