Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Vivona v. Conboy
361 U.S. 847
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1959-10-12
- Topic
- litigation
holding that evidence of other wrongs or bad acts is inadmissible when it is introduced for the sole purpose of demonstrating the defendant’s bad character or propensity | using term "similar fact evidence" to describe act unrelated to crime on trial but offered to show identity, intent and plan of design | codified in section 90.404(2), Florida Statutes (1991)
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Court, of Appeals of New York. Certiorari denied.