Molter v. State

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), J.

Suppose that Scotland Yard, in late 1888, could have established that an otherwise innocuous denizen of London’s White-chapel neighborhood had been in the unexplained possession of a locket worn no more than two or three days earlier by one of the victims of Jack the Ripper. How far might the Crown have gone with the resulting inference? It is just such an inference, and the reach of its inferential potency, that is the primary focus of this appeal.

Contentions, Good and Bad

The appellant, Brett Russell Molter, was convicted in the Circuit…