Opinion ID: 2590211
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Heading: Overview of Prosecution Case

Text: The prosecution presented evidence that defendant had committed an uncharged sexual assault and eight additional murders in Oregon and Michigan. In 1970, defendant befriended 13-year-old Joseph F., who had just run away from home, took him to defendant's house, drugged him and sodomized him. From 1980 to 1982, while on business trips to Oregon, defendant murdered six young men in separate incidents. One night in December 1982, while on a business-related trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan, defendant murdered two young men. Items belonging to the Oregon and Michigan victims were found in the search of defendant's house. A jacket taken from one of the Oregon victims was found just outside defendant's Grand Rapids hotel room. References to all eight out-of-state victims, the prosecutor argued, were included on the list found in defendant's car after his arrest.