California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lopez, D073325 (Cal. App. 2018):
considered singly or in combination, logically operate to set the . . . offenses apart from other crimes of the same general variety . . . ." ' " (People v. Felix (1993) 14 Cal.App.4th 997, 1005.) The inference of identity does not necessarily require a "signature" in the sense that certain conduct occurred only in the crimes at issue. (People v. Vines (2011) 51 Cal.4th 830, 856-857.) Rather, a fair inference can arise that the same person committed multiple crimes if "features of substantial but lesser distinctiveness . . . yield a distinctive combination when considered together." (Id. at p. 857.)
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