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 of the defendant. See Fed. R. Evid. 404(b). [Cases: Criminal Law 369.15; Evidence 129(5), 133. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 827; Evidence §§ 764–766.]

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