What is the test for determining that a crime committed at the same time by the same person has the same motive?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Novela, F073275 (Cal. App. 2019):
offense must share common features that are sufficiently distinctive so as to support the inference that the same person committed both acts. [Citation.] 'The pattern and characteristics of the crimes must be so unusual and distinctive as to be like a signature.' [Citation.]" (Ibid.) Similarity of offenses is not required to establish the motive theory of relevance. (People v. Thompson (2016) 1 Cal.5th 1043, 1115.)
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