United States v. Kory C. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a common form of evidence offered to prove who omitted a crime is “modus operandi” evidence, which is “evidence that shows a defendant’s distinctive method of operation”
• explaining that a common form of evidence offered to prove who omitted a crime is “modus operandi” evidence, which is “evidence that shows a defendant’s distinctive method of operation”
• noting the one month interval and 40 mile distance between two bank robberies when viewed in light of the rural locations of the banks in Wisconsin was relevant to demonstrating modus operandi
• “Given this string of distinctive similarities, the evidence of the Wheeler robbery is solidly probative that Smith also committed the Holcombe robbery.”
• forty mile distance between crimes was small, especially when considered in the context of rural northwest Wisconsin
• robbers brandished knives and held them vertically during robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).