modus operandi ／M.O.
modus operandi ／M.O. 〈拉〉作案手段；作案特点 警察及刑事侦查用语，用以形容罪犯活动的独特方法，它指出犯罪行为的型式风格足以使各个不同的罪行或不当行为被认定是同属一人所为。
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modus operandi
modus operandi (moh-d[schwa]s op-[schwa]-ran-dIor -dee). [Latin “a manner of operating”] A method of operating or a manner of procedure; esp. a pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that investigators attribute it to the work of the same person (staging a fight at the train station was part of the pickpocket’s modus operandi). — Abbr. M.O.
modus
modus (moh-d[schwa]s), n. [Latin “mode”] 1. Criminal procedure. The part of a charging instrument describing the manner in which an offense was committed. 2. Roman & civil law. Mode; manner; consideration; esp., the manner in which a gift, bequest, servitude, etc. is to be employed. 3. Eccles. law. See DE MODO DECIMANDI . Cf. MODUS
signature evidence
Highly distinctive evidence of a person’s prior bad acts. • While ordinarily inadmissible, signature evidence will be admitted if it shows, for example, that two crimes were committed through the same planning, design, scheme, or modus operandi, and in such a way that the prior act and the current act are uniquely identifiable as those
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signature crime
A distinctive crime so similar in pattern, scheme, or modus operandi to previous crimes that it identifies a particular defendant as the perpetrator.