Evidence - State v. Ellis: The Other Wrongful Acts Rule
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Authors
Weidner, Kathleen E.
Issue Date
1982
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15
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|State v. Ellis, decided by the Nebraska Supreme Court last year, marks a radical change in the general rule against admitting evidence of prior crimes. The standards of relevancy which must be met to make such evidence admissible were lowered in Ellis to the point of making this type of evidence relevant for almost any reason.|John Ellis was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Deborah A. Forycki. Forycki, a student at University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL), was last seen leaving her apartment on October 3, 1974, at 11:00 a.m. She was presumably on her way to an 11:30 luncheon engagement, but failed to keep the engagement and was never heard from again. Her remains were discovered almost four years later in a water wagon near Elmwood, Nebraska. The skeleton showed no signs of trauma or force, and no cause of death could be determined...
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15 Creighton L. Rev. 281 (1981-1982)
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Creighton University School of Law