California Court of Appeal

Instructions that permit the jury to consider charged domestic violence offenses, as evidence of criminal propensity, in connection with other domestic violence charges joined for trial are improper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2005
• Published 09/06/2005

Judges

• PARRILLI, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Heather MacKay, by appointment of the Court under the First DistrictAppellate Project'sAssisted Case System, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California;  Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Martin S. Kaye, Supervising Deputy Attorney General;  Laurence K. Sullivan, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.