State v. DeVincentis

This is an appeal from a conviction for sexually abusing a child. Applying State v. Lough,1 the trial court admitted evidence that the appellant had previously victimized another girl in a markedly similar way under markedly similar circumstances. Appellant asks us to hold that evidence of a prior sex crime does not prove a common scheme or plan unless it has unique or uncommon features *155atypical of the way the crime is usually committed. Because the limitation he suggests is not found in State v. Lough, and indeed is a feature of cases that the Supreme Court rejected when it decided State v.…