California Court of Appeal

Under Evidence Code section 1101 subdivision (a), evidence that defendant had prior domestic violence disputes with victim are admissible to show motive, intent, and identity and do not require a distinctive modus operandi if they involve the same perpetrator and the same victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2001
• Published 01/26/2001

Judges

• CHARLES S. VOGEL, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Baker, Silberberg & Keener, Robert C. Baker, Santa Monica, and Daniel Patrick Leonard, for Defendant and Appellant., Hornberger, Ghazarians & Brewer and Michael A. Brewer, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent Sharon Rufo., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Thomas P. Lambert, Peter B. Gelblum, Yvette Molinaro, Jeffrey D. Goldman;  O'Melveny & Myers and Daniel M. Petrocelli, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent Fredric Goldman., Edward J. Horowitz, Los Angeles, and John Quinlan Kelly, for Plaintiff and Respondent Louis H. Brown.