People v. Balcom

*418Opinion

GEORGE, J.

In People v. Ewoldt, ante, page 380 [27 Cal.Rptr.2d 646, 867 P.2d 757], we overruled the holding in People v. Tassell (1984) 36 Cal.3d 77 [201 Cal.Rptr. 567, 679 P.2d 1] that evidence of uncharged misconduct is admissible to establish a common design or plan only if such evidence demonstrates a “single, continuing conception or plot” of which the charged crime is a part. (People v. Ewoldt, supra, ante, at p. 401.) We held instead in Ewoldt that such evidence is admissible to establish a common design or plan if the uncharged misconduct “shares sufficient common features with…