Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 8/20/1997

Commonwealth v. Elliott

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700 A.2d 1243
549 Pa. 132
1997 Pa. LEXIS 1667

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holding that it was proper for the medical examiner to estimate the victim’s time of death based on the results of her investigator’s lividity test, as it was standard procedure for her to rely on tests performed by members of her office
finding that charged offense was sufficiently similar to three prior criminal acts where, inter alia, the victims were “all white women in their twenties”
including observations of scratch marks on the defendant in the court's sufficiency review
allowing in testimony to show common scheme, plan or design that included information about three prior assaults with sexual overtones on three white women in their twenties in the early morning hours after each woman found herself alone with defendant
including observations of scratch marks on the defendant in the court’s sufficiency review
allowing testimony to show modus operandi from three prior assaults with sexual overtones, on three white - 11 - J-S28025-18 women in their twenties, in the early morning hours, when each woman found herself alone with defendant

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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman

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