Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[t]he common characteristics of each offense must be so unusual as to act as the defendant’s “signature.” Taylor v. State, 920 S.W.2d 319, 322 (Tex.Crim.App.1996). “No rigid rules dictate what constitutes sufficient similarities; rather, the common characteristics may be proximity in time and place, mode of commission of the crimes, the person’s dress, or any other elements which mark both crimes as having been committed by the same person.” Segundo v. State, 270 S.W.3d 79, 88 (Tex.Crim.App.2008). “Usually, it is the accretion of small, sometimes individually insignificant, details that marks each crime as the handiwork or modus operandi of a single individual.” Id. In the context of evaluating the admissibility of extraneous offenses, modus operandi refers to “a defendant’s distinctive and idiosyncratic manner of committing criminal acts.” Owens, 827 S.W.2d at 914.”

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