Fritz v. Austin

How courts have described this case

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• Commonwealth may rely on circumstantial evidence to meet its burden of proving facts sufficient to establish jurisdiction
• “The harmless error doc trine, as adopted in Pennsylvania, reflects the reality that the accused is entitled to a fair trial, not a perfect trial.”
• defendant’s kidnapping of victim in Pennsylvania constituted element of second-degree homicide, allowing Pennsylvania to try defendant for homicide that occurred in Maryland
• “Evidence of prior bad acts is … admissible where the particular crime or act was part of a chain, sequence, or natural development of events forming the history of the case.”
• under Pa.R.E. 404(b), “[e]vidence of prior bad acts is also admissible where the particular crime or act was part of a chain, sequence, or natural development of events forming the history of a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).