State v. DeVincentis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[s]ome of [the girls allowed to testify to the defendant’s prior bad acts] the defendant was related to and some not. The sexual acts he performed were different and at different locations. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court held that the evidence was admissible to show common scheme or plan, because it was evidence of the defendant’s design to molest children.”

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

2. “A rational factfinder could well conclude that DeVincentis used a particular strategy to win each girl's cooperation, over time, in her own victimization.”

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

3. “caution is called for in application of the common scheme or plan exception as defined in Lough.”

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