Commonwealth v. Brusgulis

How courts have described this case

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

• error to admit defendant’s prior unrelated acts of assault and attempted rape at trial for assault with intent to rape
• evidence of prior assaults committed far apart in both time and location improperly admitted
• evidence that defendant committed similar crimes against different victims generally inadmissible
• no “unique feature common to the three assaults . . . would justify admitting evidence of the prior acts to prove that the defendant . . . committed the assault” where features “common to the incidents are common to numerous assaults on women”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).