CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Character and Reputation Evidence
......Charact. Evid. of Victim: Crim. Cases
.........Conduct Prior or Subsequent to Incident
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  • It is not unconstitutional to base a special circumstance on a prior conviction for a murder committed as a juvenile.
  • No showing of judicial bias in allowing testimony of husband's divorce attorney on his intention to get support reduction, introduced on question of wife's motive for murdering husband.
  • Circumstantial evidence showing V feared D may be admissible where acts of V prior to crime at issue—i.e. whether she would enter D's car voluntarily or was forced.
  • Court did not err in finding D's evidence not sufficient to establish habit or custom of V in keeping her door partly open while cleaning her apartment, thus negating D's felonious intent in entering.
  • Evidence of V's long-standing habit of storing money in baby food jars and envelopes relevant where empty jars found at scene and D carrying money in envelope following murders.
  • Conduct of victim relevant whether before or after incident.