Topic: the law favors joining multiple offenses in a single trial … · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 35 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Lott.

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1 State v. Lott Anchor
ohio · 1990
green “the law favors joining multiple offenses in a single trial under crim.r. 8(a) if the offenses charged 'are of the same or similar character.” 14
2 State v. Lowe
ohio · 1994
green “to be admissible to prove identity through a certain modus operandi, other-acts evidence must be related to and share common features with the crime in question.” 10
3 State v. Johnson
ohio · 2000
green “if the state can meet the joinder test, it need not meet the stricter 'other acts' test.” 8
4 State v. Kaufman
ohioctapp · 2010
green “the joinder test only requires that the evidence of each joined offense is simple and distinct and ensures that a jury would be capable of segregating the proof required for each offense.” 3

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