272 So. 2d 659 - Readus v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “It is not to be inferred from the rule stated above that the admission of evidence which shows or tends to show the commission of an offense other than the particular one with which the accused is charged must be excluded in all cases and under all circumstances. There are, on the contrary, several well recognized exceptions to and limitations upon the general rule stated. Evidence of other crimes is always admissible when such evidence tends directly to establish the particular crime, and it is usually competent to prove the motive, the intent, the absence of mistake or accident, a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the others, or the identity of the persons charged with the commission of the crime on trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradford v. State

2. “[t]he prior shooting incident in this case is an exception to the general rule and would tend to show the intent of the appellant and absence of accident in the shooting which caused the death of [the victim].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 956 So. 2d 1044 - Wilson v. State