What is the test for establishing a common design or plan?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Smith, A139230 (Cal. App. 2016):
To be admissible "to prove the existence of a common design or plan[,] . . . evidence of uncharged misconduct must demonstrate 'not merely a similarity in the results, but such a concurrence of common features that the various acts are naturally to be explained as caused by a general plan of which they are the individual manifestations.' " (People v. Ewoldt (1994) 7 Cal.4th 380, 402.) Although "the common
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