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by lII1lIlI11ll 514 days ago
Of course it is. Throwing in potential evidence of unrelated crimes to sway other people's (specifically jury's) opinion about the defendant without formally charging him is exactly what the word "insinuation" means[0]:

the action of suggesting, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true

[0]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insinuat...