Commonwealth v. Minor

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a “contested issue about the defendant’s identity” would generally render other crimes evidence logically relevant
• recognizing that a “contested issue about the defendant’s identity” would generally render other crimes evidence logically relevant
• “For such evidence to be admissible under one of these exceptions, the legitimate probative value of the evidence must outweigh its prejudicial effect.”
• evidence implicating an accused in other crimes unrelated to the charged offense may confuse the issues being tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).