How have courts treated evidence of a common design or plan in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rankin, B252821 (Cal. App. 2015):
are naturally to be explained as caused by a general plan of which they are the individual manifestations.' [Citation.] Evidence of a common design or plan, therefore, is not used to prove the defendant's intent or identity but rather to prove that the defendant engaged in the conduct alleged to constitute the charged offense." (People v. Ewoldt (1994) 7 Cal.4th 380, 393-394.)
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