18 Va. App. 409 - Hewston v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2004
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spencer v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Texas · United States v. Hudson · 5 Va. App. 125 - Henderson v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“there are important exceptions to that rule. Evidence of other crimes is admissible if it tends to prove any fact in issue, even though it also tends to show the defendant guilty of another crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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