State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “). To the extent that evidence of their arrests together in Jefferson Parish and of their close association with the two handguns involved in the New Orleans offense discloses the connection between relator and his co-perpetrator and the nature of their relationship, the probative value of further linking them through evidence of the Jefferson Parish shooting incident appears far outweighed by the danger that the evidence will”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 782 So. 2d 136 - State v. Brown

2. “State v. Prieur, 277 So.2d 126, 130 (La.1973). In the case before us, the two criminal episodes are not so peculiarly distinctive that logically they appear the work of one man or of the same team working in tandem systematically. See State v. Moore, 440 So.2d 134, 137 (La.1983) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 782 So. 2d 136 - State v. Brown

3. “); see also State v. Evans, 97-1030, pp. 4-7 (La. App. 5th Cir.4/15/98), 712 So.2d 941, 943-44 (finding error in the introduction of the New Orleans offense at the trial of relator for the Jefferson Parish crime because the two offenses”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 782 So. 2d 136 - State v. Brown