State v. Horne’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 69 state decisions

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1. “First, when several charges have been made against the defendant, the jury may consider that a person charged with doing so many things is a bad [person] who must have done something, and may cumulate evidence against him . . . Second, the jury may have used the evidence of one case to convict the defendant in another case even though that evidence would have been inadmissible at a separate trial . . . [Third,] joinder of cases that are factually similar but legally unconnected . . . present[s] the . . . danger that a defendant will be subjected to the omnipresent risk . . . that although so much [of the evidence] as would be admissible upon any one of the charges might not [persuade the jury] of the accused's guilt, the sum of it will convince them as to all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Conn. Super. Ct. 2960 - State v. Fauci, No. Fst-95602 (Mar. 5, 2003)