When a defendant is charged with a similar crime to the charged crime, does the prior offence have to be proven to prove a common plan?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gant, B261442 (Cal. App. 2016):
Nonetheless, we agree with the Attorney General the prior offense was sufficiently similar to the charged crime to justify its admission to prove a common plan. (See People v. Chism (2014) 58 Cal.4th 1266, 1307, fn. 13 ["'"a ruling or decision, itself
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