Vivona v. Conboy

Vivona v. Conboy, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Institution

Vivona v. Conboy, 361 U.S. 847 (1959)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: October 12, 1959
Docket: No. 99
Citations: 361 U.S. 84780 S. Ct. 1024 L. Ed. 2d 851959 U.S. LEXIS 580

Cited by 340 3 descriptions by later courts

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Court, of Appeals of New York. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

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(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)

Allen v. State, 763 So. 2d 372 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)
(using term "similar fact evidence" to describe act unrelated to crime on trial but offered to show identity, intent and plan of design)

Titel v. State, 788 So. 2d 286 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)
(codified in section 90.404(2), Florida Statutes (1991))

Garcia v. State, 659 So. 2d 388 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995)

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Livingston v. State441 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1983)
Straight v. State397 So. 2d 903 (Fla. 1981)
Heiney v. State447 So. 2d 210 (Fla. 1984)
State v. Savino567 So. 2d 892 (Fla. 1990)
Crump v. State622 So. 2d 963 (Fla. 1993)
Jewelcor Jewelers & Distributors, Inc. v. Corr542 A.2d 72 (Pa. 1988)

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Rodriguez v. State990 So. 2d 621 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)
Bouie v. State988 So. 2d 727 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)
State v. Scott183 P.3d 801 (Kan. 2008)

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