968 So. 2d 99 - Sule v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “There must be a meaningful relationship between or among charges before they can be tried together. In other words, the crimes must be linked in some significant way. Whether acts or transactions are connected is considered in an episodic sense. Courts may consider whether the acts or transactions are temporally or geographically associated, the nature of the crimes, and the manner in which they are committed.”

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

2. “The danger of improper consolidation lies in the fact that evidence relating to one crime may have the effect of bolstering the proof of the other.”

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

3. “to promote a fair determination of the defendant's guilt or innocence of each offense.”

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