State v. Saucy

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• holding that the testimony of a witness who had lived with the defendant was admissible where the defendant's appearance had changed since the commission of the crime
• finding that offenses were not of the same or similar character where “[t]he evidence did not reflect that the same weapon was necessarily used, nor was there anything distinctive about the manner of committing the crimes”
• finding that offenses were not of the same or similar character where “[t]he evidence did not reflect that the same weapon was necessarily used, nor was there anything distinctive about the manner of committing the crimes”
• the defendant threatened the use of a dangerous instrument when he held something in his hand under a white cloth and told the victim to open the cash register drawer
• “Compliance with the demands of the robber is indicative of the victim’s fear of the consequences which could have resulted had he or she not complied.” (citation omitted)
• witness properly allowed to identify defendant in surveillance video; because she lived with defendant at time of crime and defendant’s appearance had since changed, and, there- fore, witness more likely than jury to correctly identify defendant in vid- eotape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).