California Court of Appeal

Conviction for numerous lewd and lascivious acts against children under the age of 14 are affirmed where: 1) evidence of defendant's participation in a private online discussion group, involving references to sexual molestation of minors, was admissible to show intent to sexually molest the victims; 2) defendant has not preserved his challenge to the admission of a videotape depicting the rape of a 10- to 12-year-old girl that he showed to a victim; 3) the trial court's description of defendant's participation in the private online discussion group as an uncharged crime was harmless error; and 4) disclosing part of Child Protective Services' records for one of the victims to the parties was not error. The court struck one of two prison terms imposed for a lewd and lascivious act count arising based on the same occasion as another count.

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• Published 2016/07/11

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• HOCH

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• California Court of Appeal

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