Leonard v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• noting “it defies logic” to limit consideration of defendant’s attempted escape to avoid prosecution solely to his “lesser offenses” when several other serious charges were pending
• admissibility issues fall within the \broad discretion of the trial court\
• “[I]t is today universally conceded that the fact of an accused’s flight, escape from custody, resistance to arrest, concealment, assumption of a false name, and related conduct, are admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt, and thus of guilt itself.” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).