What is the test for finding that the accused has committed similar acts to the accused?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Johnson, 2010 ONCA 646 (CanLII):
The trial judge must also determine whether there is some evidentiary link between the similar acts and the accused. Where there is no evidence connecting the accused to the similar fact evidence itself, the evidence is irrelevant and inadmissible: Sweitzer v. The Queen, 1982 CanLII 23 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 949, at p. 954.
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