Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/18/1990

Commonwealth v. Brusgulis

Citations

548 N.E.2d 1234
406 Mass. 501
1990 Mass. LEXIS 49

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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”

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney

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