Count Dracula-like cape, On October 31 (Halloween), at

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On October 31 (Halloween), at midnight, a man wearing a ski mask and a "Count Dracula-like cape" held up a taxicab driver at gunpoint. No one saw the offender's face, but Richard Harrington has been charged with the crime. The prosecution's case consisted entirely of witnesses who linked Harrington to each of four prior cabbie robberies. Each of these robberies took place one year apart, each happening at midnight on Halloween for each of the four years preceding the current robbery. In the first three robberies, eyewitnesses saw Harrington's face when he removed his mask and fled. Harrington was tried but acquitted of all three offenses. In the next case, eyewitnesses saw a caped, ski mask-wearing man flee into Harrington's apart- ment building. Subsequent police searches with warrants uncovered a cape but no mask. The offender fled and was thus never arrested. Should evidence of the previous three, acquitted, mask robberies be admitted? Why or why not?

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