197 N.C. App. 619 - State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “While it is true that “North Carolina courts have been consistently liberal in admitting evidence of similar sex offenses in trials .on sexual crime charges[,]” when two or three decades have passed between the incidents, certainly the Court must require more similarity between the acts than what was provided herein — namely, that the victims were young girls in defendant’s care, the incidents happened in his home, and he told the girls not to report his behavior. While “the similarities between the two incidents need not be unique and bizarre[,] . . . the similarities simply must tend to support a reasonable inference that the same person committed both the earlier and later acts.” Such is not the case here. Admission of this testimony was, therefore, error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 210 N.C. App. 493 - State v. Gray