California Court of Appeal

Assault with intent to commit rape, under Penal Code section 220, is a sexual offense within the meaning of Evidence Code section 1108, permitting a trier of fact to consider defendant's prior sex offenses as propensity evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2002
• Published 12/23/2002

Judges

•  GILBERT, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Leonard J. Klaif, Ojai, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Russell A. Lehman, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.