Commonwealth v. Keizer

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• substantial connecting links between robbery charged and another robbery where both crimes shared distinctive modus operandi, similar identification testimony, and common perpetrator
• error to exclude evidence that robbery was very similar to another that defendant could not have committed
• pat-frisk of car, as well as of occupants, permissible even when occupants are temporarily in detention away from the car
• “acts of the other person [must be] so closely connected in point of time and method of operation as to cast doubt upon the identification of [the] defendant as the person who committed the crime”
• robbery committed by similar methods while defendant was in custody
• exclusion improper where both offenses involved same type of crime, same general location in Boston, same description of assailants, similar method of commission, and “[i]n addition, similar weapons were used ... a square-barrelled pistol and a sawed-off shotgun concealed by a paper bag”

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