Arizona Supreme Court· 5/6/1997

State v. Hughes

Citations

938 P.2d 457
189 Ariz. 62
242 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 50
1997 Ariz. LEXIS 53

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concluding insufficient similarities where both victims were women who had angered defendant, and the same person may have been paid to commit the crimes
finding strangulation murder and Molotov cocktail arson insufficiently similar where there were “only two likenesses—both victims were women who had angered defendant and [the same individual] may have been paid to commit the crimes”
It is “incumbent on the trial court, under Rule 403, to limit [other acts] evidence to its probative essence ... by excluding irrelevant or inflammatory detail.”

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Judges: Zlaket, Feldman, Moeller, Martone, Robert, Corcoran

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