Bussie v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that trial court erred in refusing to sever assault charges from drug charges and explaining that jury was more likely to find defendant guilty of assault if it found that defendant possessed drugs
• maintaining “that mere physical closeness and chronological syncopation of criminal activity are not alone sufficient to render evidence of other crimes mutually admissible based upon ‘same transaction’ relevance”
• maintaining “that mere physical closeness and chronological syncopation of criminal activity are not alone sufficient to render evidence of other crimes mutually admissible based upon ‘same transaction’ relevance”
• the doctrine of “mutual admissibility” concerns whether “evidence of each crime would be admissible in a trial for the other”
• self-defense instruction is appropriate to a charge of assault with intent to disable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).