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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 8/25/1995

Commonwealth v. Miller

Citations

  • 664 A.2d 1310
  • 541 Pa. 531
  • 1995 Pa. LEXIS 613

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that circumstantial evidence of prior kidnapping established pattern of behavior constituting a common scheme
  • acknowledging that prior crimes evidence played an important role where conviction was based on circumstantial evidence
  • finding five year lapse of time was not too remote because of similarity of crimes committed
  • holding admissible, to prove a common scheme, plan, or design, evidence that the defendant lured other victims of similar race and weight into his car, took them to remote areas to force sex upon them, beat them in a similar manner, and killed or attempted to kill them
  • finding circumstantial evidence sufficient to support kidnapping conviction where victim was last seen alive in defendant’s company, her body was later found in a remote area some distance from where she was last seen, and there was evidence that a rope had been tied around her leg
  • positing, incorrectly, that bad acts evincing a true signature are “relevant and admissi ble for the purpose of establishing a common scheme, plan or design embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one naturally tends to prove the others”

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Judges: Nix, Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Montemuro

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