United States v. John T. Goodwin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• articulating that a subsequent incident is permitted to show modus operandi if the subsequent act “bears such a high degree of similarity as to mark it as the handiwork of the accused”
• “[a]lthough intent was an element of the crimes charged, that issue was never seriously disputed at trial” and thus there was a “total absence of need for the evidence”
• “The ‘identity’ exception ... is used either in conjunction with some other basis for admissibility or synonymously with modus op-erandi.” (Footnote omitted).
• “The ‘identity’ exception . . . is used either in conjunction with some other basis for admissibility or synonymously with modus operandi.” (Footnote omitted).
• “[Prosecutor] is at liberty to strike hard blows, but not foul ones.”
• “[Prosecutor] is at liberty to strike hard blows, but not foul ones.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).