Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/21/2006

Commonwealth v. Williams

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896 A.2d 523
586 Pa. 553
2006 Pa. LEXIS 537

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holding that any error in admission of prior bad acts was cured by the trial court’s contemporaneous administration of a cautionary instruction and by its final instruction limiting the jury’s consideration of the prior bad acts evidence
stating that the prosecution is accorded reasonable latitude to employ oratorical flair in arguing its version of the case to the jury
stating that the prosecution is accorded reasonable latitude to employ oratorical flair in arguing its version of the case to the jury
rejecting argument that criminal disposition of defendant's cohorts has any relevance in mitigation to defendant's own punishment
explaining that the res gestae exception to Rule 404(b) allows admission of evidence of other crimes when such evidence is relevant to furnish the context or complete the story of the events surrounding the instant crime
finding bad acts testimony that connected appellant to murder weapon and sequence of events leading up to murder admissible under res gestae exception

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Judges: Cappy, Castille, Newman, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Baldwin

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