What are the common and distinctive marks of a crime?

Given these other common and distinctive facts, we must ask: Did the trial court abuse its discretion in concluding these crimes bore such common and distinctive marks that the person who committed one of them likely committed all of them? Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the trial court's ruling (People v. Carter (2005) 36 Cal.4th 1114, 1148), we conclude in the negative. That some distinctions exist, as defendant contends, is true, but "[t]o be highly distinctive, the charged and uncharged crimes need not be mirror images of each other." (Ibid.)