Yellardy v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the fact that the crimes all occurred in the same park was a factor in concluding that the crimes were part of a common scheme or plan
• approving joinder where the robberies targeted similar victims four days apart in the same park
• holding the two robberies were part of a common “scheme or plan to confront and rob single men in the park during lunchtime by threatening them with a rock, and when prosecuted, to assert that the victims confronted him with offers of homosexual sex”
• applying a combined analysis of terms “common scheme” and “common plan”
• affirming the conviction in a single trial of a defendant charged with two robberies occurring four days apart in the same park where each victim was an unaccompanied male threatened with a rock and subsequently accused by the defendant of having made a sexual proposition
• “Because proof of the two offenses was relevant to prove ... identity, ... justice did not require separate trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).