California Court of Appeal

In a sex offense case where the trial court has admitted propensity evidence that the defendant has committed an uncharged sex offense, it is reversible error to exclude admission of evidence that the defendant has been acquitted of that offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2004
• Published 06/17/2004

Judges

• NARES, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Joseph T. Tavano, San Diego, by appointment of the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela A. Ratner Sobeck and David Delgado-Rucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.