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IN THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS ----ooOoo---State of Utah, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Anthony David Milligan, Defendant and Appellant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ----Third District, Salt Lake Department, 061906304 The Honorable Paul G. Maughan Attorneys: Herschel Bullen, Salt Lake City, for Appellant Mark L. Shurtleff and Kris C. Leonard, Salt Lake City, for Appellee ----Before Judges Davis, McHugh, and Roth. DAVIS, Presiding Judge: Defendant Anthony David Milligan appeals his conviction and sentence for first degree felony murder and second degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person. He argues that the trial court failed to exclude gang-related evidence that was unfairly prejudicial to his case. We affirm. The Utah Rules of Evidence provide that relevant evidence is generally admissible. See Utah R. Evid. 402. Relevant evidence is "evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence." Id. R. 401. "[T]he standard for determining the relevancy of evidence is very low, and even evidence with the slightest probative value is relevant." State v. Martin, 2002 UT 34,

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